No senior politician can expect to have work-life balance. I'm afraid there are some jobs for which work-life balance inevitably goes out the window. If you want work-life balance you just have to accept that you can't be a senior member of a government, or for that matter a senior member of an opposition.

Even potential human life needs to be treated with great respect.

I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked.

Australia would play its role in taking displaced people from the Syrian conflict.

There will be no overall increase in the tax burden whatsoever.

The thing about social media is that it is anonymous, so it can be much more vitriolic and extreme than normal media and yet it is there for everyone to see. It is kind of like electronic graffiti. The political process is accelerated and intense in a way that I don't believe it ever really has been before.

Today, we have got more excuses from the government.