Whether carbon dioxide is quite the environmental villain that some people make it out to be is not yet proven.

Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted.

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

Well, Michael, we will be telling the people of Australia in good time before the next election exactly what they can expect from us. No surprises, no excuses. They will be our watch words going into the election and afterwards, should we form a government.

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.

There will be no overall increase in the tax burden whatsoever.

Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.