I want to make it clear that I do not judge or condemn any woman who has had an abortion, but every abortion is a tragedy and up to 100,000 abortions a year is this generation's legacy of unutterable shame.

Today, we have got more excuses from the government.

The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens.

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.

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

I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.

To be sociable, I puffed on a marijuana cigarette, but I didn't inhale...I just hate the idea of drawing smoke into my lungs.