There may not be a great job for [Aboriginal people] but whatever there is, they just have to do it, and if it’s picking up rubbish around the community, it just has to be done.

It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case.

Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor

I do enjoy exercise, not because I am an exercise junkie but because it's terrific stress release.

The argument [behind climate change] is absolute crap. However, the politics of this are tough for us. Eighty per cent of people believe climate change is a real and present danger.

The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.

A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut - it's a con.