This is a government which is proposing to put at risk our manufacturing industry, to penalise struggling families, to make a tough situation worse for millions of households right around Australia. And for what? To make not a scrap of difference to the environment any time in the next 1000 years.

More excuses for more failures.

I am, as you know, hugely unconvinced by the so-called settled science on climate change.

Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it’s not necessarily everyone’s place to come to Australia.

I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons.

Australia will take more refugees from Syria in response to the growing international crisis but it will not increase the total number of asylum seekers it accepts.

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