We are looking at what more we can do. As well as a strong security response we need a strong humanitarian one.

I was a very senior minister in the Howard government and I sat around this particular table [in the prime ministerial office] in many discussions. The difference between being a senior minister and the prime minister is that ultimately the buck does stop with the prime minister and in the end the prime minister has to make those critical judgement calls and that's the big difference.

We have already provided a strong humanitarian response to the problems in the Middle East and that response will be stronger within coming days.

My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure

Should we choose to extend our airstrikes into Syria, we will be doing this in the collective self-defence of Iraq. We would be doing this out of a responsibility to protect innocent people at risk of horrible death from the most violent people imaginable.

We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.

Prima facie, every estate, whether given by will or otherwise, is supposed to be beneficial to the party to whom it is so given.