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.

You try turning up in America without documents, without a visa, without a passport; you'll be treated as very, very much illegal.

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

The last thing Australia needs right now is instability and uncertainty.

I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.

I've always been very wary of debates involving women.

The one thing that has changed dramatically when you talk to the people of New Zealand and people from Ireland? They feel a darned-sight better about themselves because they made the decision to do what they've done, and I can say to you, we would feel a bloody darned sight better about ourselves once we get an opportunity to put this [vote on same-sex marriage] out there.