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

We are a very like-minded group, the senior members of this government. The outliers are not very far away from the mainstream.

The the relationship between the prime minister and the monarch is very much a personal one and when it comes to the constitution of the Order of Australia, which is headed by the monarch, this is governed by letters patent, which are a matter between the prime minister and the monarch.

The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother’s convenience.

Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country's British heritage

Why isn’t the fact that 100,000 women choose to end their pregnancies regarded as a national tragedy approaching the scale, say, of Aboriginal life expectancy being 20 years less than that of the general community?

Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.