The smart way to improve broadband is not to junk the existing network but to make the most of it. It’s to let a competitive market deliver the speeds that people need at an affordable price with government improving infrastructure in the areas where market competition won’t deliver it.

We will be a consultative, collegial government. No surprises, no excuses. That's what you'll get under the Coalition.

The Liberal Party has dealt with the spill motion and now this matter is behind us, we think that when you elect a government, when you elect a prime minister, you deserve to keep that government and that prime minister until you have a chance to change your mind.

If you want to put a price on carbon why not just do it with a simple tax?

I've always been very wary of debates involving women.

Here we go again, a government which is making yet more excuses for yet more failure when it comes to getting our budgetary situation right.

The only thing I wouldn't do is sell my arse.