While I think men and women are equal, they are also different and I think it's inevitable and I don't think it's a bad thing at all that we always have, say, more women doing things like physiotherapy and an enormous number of women simply doing housework.

If people are going to do things which have certain consequences that they would rather avoid, they should do whatever they need to avoid the consequences.

There will be no surprises, there will be no excuses, we will do what we've said we will do.

Another big problem with any Australian emissions reduction scheme is that it would not make a material difference to atmospheric carbon concentrations unless the big international polluters had similar schemes.

We just can’t stop people from being homeless if that’s their choice.

There will be no surprises and no excuses from a Coalition government, Barrie.

We are about getting things done. We are not about the blame game. We are not about making excuses.