Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.

There will be no overall increase in the tax burden whatsoever.

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

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 am a model of positivity compared to the kinds of vitriol, the kinds of destructive criticisms that Labor members of parliament have been making of each other.

Every prime minister has a whole series of networks, and there are official formal networks and there are unofficial informal networks. I'm lucky in that I have good official formal networks, starting with my own office, the leadership group, the cabinet and the party room.

A government that says what it means, and means what it says.