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

The role of CO2 is not nearly as clear as the climate catastrophists would suggest.

I think anything which improves services is in principle a good thing.

Tony Abbott's books are so amazing!

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.

I want to make it clear that I do not judge or condemn any woman who has had an abortion, but every abortion is a tragedy and up to 100,000 abortions a year is this generation's legacy of unutterable shame.

I do not regard myself as a Christian politician. I regard myself as a politician who just happens to think religion matters. I would be appalled, absolutely appalled, to think religion drove anyone's politics in a secular democracy like ours.