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

The climate change argument is absolute crap

We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration.

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.

We are sticking with the plan. We have a plan to get taxes down, to get regulation down, to get productivity up, to create jobs, to reduce taxes, to boost prosperity. The plan is working and we are sticking with it.

I'm confident that there are plenty of people who have the strength of character and the presence of mind to warn me of difficulties and alert me to opportunities.

The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go.