We have already provided a strong humanitarian response to the problems in the Middle East and that response will be stronger within coming days.

In respect of Indonesia, I am determined to be the best possible friend of Indonesia that I can be, consistent with my overriding duty to protect our country. We would never do anything that was damaging to Indonesia, because we want Indonesia to flourish. We want Indonesia to take its rightful place as one of the really important countries of the world, as it will, sooner or later.

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

In drawing an inference or conclusion from facts proved, regard must always be had to the nature of the particular case, and the facility that appears to be afforded, either of explanation or contradiction. No person is to be required to explain or contradict, until enough has been proved to warrant a reasonable and just conclusion against him, in the absence of explanation or contradiction.

I am, as you know, hugely unconvinced by the so-called settled science on climate change.

I am not being negative, I am simply being factual when I say Kevin Rudd is the best friend the people smugglers have ever had

There's a sense in which politicians can never work hard enough.