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.

A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut - it's a con.

The only thing I wouldn't do is sell my arse.

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

And the commitment that I've been giving to the Australian people is that there'll be no surprises and no excuses under a Coalition government.

Part of my role, I suppose, is to run government business in the House of Representatives, and try to ensure that people know exactly what's going on in the Chamber is an important part of that.

To move past fear is a cliche.