If you want to put a price on carbon why not just do it with a simple tax?

There's a sense in which politicians can never work hard enough.

There will be no surprises, there will be no excuses, we will do what we've said we will do.

Do we really want to invest $50 billion of hard earned taxpayers money in what is essentially a video entertainment system?

I think my wife and my kids are incredibly good to allow me to stay in public life given that they have to cop a whole lot of collateral attention that, being human, they'd rather not get.

No senior politician can expect to have work-life balance. I'm afraid there are some jobs for which work-life balance inevitably goes out the window. If you want work-life balance you just have to accept that you can't be a senior member of a government, or for that matter a senior member of an opposition.

I'm focused on doing the job the treasurer should do.I don't respond to gossip.