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

We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration.

No cuts to health , no cuts to education, no cuts to pensions.

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.

Here we go again, a government which is making yet more excuses for yet more failure when it comes to getting our budgetary situation right.

I'm still getting my exercise at five o'clock in the morning, that's good. So far I've managed to hold on to a bike ride on Saturday or Sunday morning, probably at least two weekends out of three.

I see myself as a social conservative, but I think that there are lots of social institutions that produce beneficial reforms, like public hospitals, for instance, and schools.