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.

Climate change is crap.

We are going to be a government of no surprises and no excuses; a government which keeps its commitments and a government which is straight and candid with the Australian people and that's what we intend to do.

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

What we are determined to do is to take more people from Syria and that war-torn part of the world as a response to this particular crisis, but again I stress we are taking people from camps because the last thing we want to do is to encourage and reward people smuggling.We are taking people from camps and we are taking family groups; our focus will be on family groups, from persecuted minorities.

The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go.

We have a strong and credible broadband policy because the man who has devised it, the man who will implement it virtually invented the Internet in this country.