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

There are some issues where ministers should come and talk to the prime minister, if the prime minister hasn't already talked to them. Any issue which a minister thinks is going to be profoundly controversial, where we do not have a clear existing position, it is important that there be a conversation between the minister and the prime minister. I think they all understand that and I think it is working very well.

I want to see an end to sovereign risk questions over Australia.

All of the people who are using their BlackBerries or their iPhones, Facebook, all of the people who are sitting in cafes and hotels rooms doing their work, they're all using wireless technology, and we shouldn't assume that the only way of the future is high speed cable.

There is one fundamental message that we want to go out from this place to every nook and cranny of our country: There should be no new tax collection without an election.

I am, as you know, hugely unconvinced by the so-called settled science on climate change.

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