I have close family members as well as lots of close friends who are gay. Many of them strongly support gay marriage.

I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society

I've always avoided those sorts of self-assessments because if you give yourself a 10 out of 10 people think you're a big head, if you give yourself a 6 out of 10 they think you're plagued with self-doubt, so I'm just not going to rate myself.

We can't conclusively say whether man-made carbon dioxide emissions are contributing to climate change.

I don't bring religion into the square.

There are some issues where ministers should come and talk to the prime minister, if the prime minister hasn't already talked to them. Any issue which a minister thinks is going to be profoundly controversial, where we do not have a clear existing position, it is important that there be a conversation between the minister and the prime minister. I think they all understand that and I think it is working very well.

If you don't want to work weekends, don't.