I think all senior politicians tend to be rather more subtle then the commentators would have it. It is a natural tendency for human beings to try to classify. We all have this classification urge - so and so is such and such, that person is in that camp - but look, most sophisticated people defy stereotype.

Whether carbon dioxide is quite the environmental villain that some people make it out to be is not yet proven.

The only thing I wouldn't do is sell my arse.

I'm not really managing the work-life balance, I'm just accepting that the work increases and the ordinary life has to decrease when you're the prime minister.

My mum and mad were both very generous, encouraging parents.

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.

I am extremely unwilling that we should take upon ourselves to exercise a jurisdiction which the law does not vest in us.