We've got to get the system right. That's why we've got this root-and-branch reform under way.

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

Labor has come out with a series of proposals to increase taxes, including taxes on people across Australia saving for their retirement, he has actually identified so far zero dollars in spending reductions.

The Liberal Party has dealt with the spill motion and now this matter is behind us, we think that when you elect a government, when you elect a prime minister, you deserve to keep that government and that prime minister until you have a chance to change your mind.

People who have put money aside on the basis of a certain set of rules shouldn't have that money raided just because government has got a problem.

I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.

No country or continent can open its borders to all comers without fundamentally weakening itself and this is the risk that the countries of Europe run through misguided altruism.