A midnight knock on the door followed by execution is no way a leader should be treated.

We are looking at what more we can do. As well as a strong security response we need a strong humanitarian one.

I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.

There's a sense in which politicians can never work hard enough.

Should we choose to extend our airstrikes into Syria, we will be doing this in the collective self-defence of Iraq. We would be doing this out of a responsibility to protect innocent people at risk of horrible death from the most violent people imaginable.

I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society

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.