I am extremely unwilling that we should take upon ourselves to exercise a jurisdiction which the law does not vest in us.

Coal is good for humanity, coal is good for prosperity, coal is an essential part of our economic future, here in Australia, and right around the world.

I want to see an end to sovereign risk questions over Australia.

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

Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy.

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.

I think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there are all sorts of other relationships which should be acknowledged and recognised, but I don't know that they can be recognised as marriage.