When the world is in trouble, Australia responds. Australia is a good, global citizen.

I don't think my religious convictions should be held against me.

I don't think it's a very Christian thing to come in by the back door rather than the front door.

A bit of body contact never hurt anyone.

The argument [behind climate change] is absolute crap. However, the politics of this are tough for us. Eighty per cent of people believe climate change is a real and present danger.

It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case.

We are looking at what more we can do. As well as a strong security response we need a strong humanitarian one.