It is very important for our long-term economic future that the relationship with Japan, Korea and China, who are our three biggest trading partners, be ever stronger.

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

I have close family members as well as lots of close friends who are gay. Many of them strongly support gay marriage.

I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked.

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

We will be a consultative, collegial government. No surprises, no excuses. That's what you'll get under the Coalition.

You try turning up in America without documents, without a visa, without a passport; you'll be treated as very, very much illegal.