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

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

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

This is a government which is proposing to put at risk our manufacturing industry, to penalise struggling families, to make a tough situation worse for millions of households right around Australia. And for what? To make not a scrap of difference to the environment any time in the next 1000 years.

When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire.

People who have put money aside on the basis of a certain set of rules shouldn't have that money raided just because government has got a problem.

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.