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

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.

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

Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.

There are tens, perhaps hundreds of millions of people living in poverty and danger who might readily seek to enter a Western country if the opportunity is there.

We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.

I think there does need to be give and take on both sides, and this idea that sex is kind of a woman’s right to absolutely withhold, just as the idea that sex is a man’s right to demand I think they are both they both need to be moderated, so to speak.