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.

I'm not saying that people on welfare don't contribute in their own way, but as many as possible should be encouraged to be economically active as well as socially and culturally active.

If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.

Climate change is crap.

There will be no surprises, there will be no excuses, we will do what we've said we will do.

What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it’s going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up.

And the commitment that I've been giving to the Australian people is that there'll be no surprises and no excuses under a Coalition government.