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

We are going to be a government of no surprises and no excuses; a government which keeps its commitments and a government which is straight and candid with the Australian people and that's what we intend to do.

I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.

The last thing Australia needs right now is instability and uncertainty.

I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons.

What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the economic mainstream if that's their choice.

We've got to maintain freedom of navigation of the seas and in the air.