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.

The choice made by families not to immunize their children is not supported by public policy or medical research nor should such action be supported by taxpayers in the form of child care payments.

So, my friends, in a week or so the Governor-General will swear in a new government.

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

Look, good government doesn't look for excuses, good government gets on with the job.

We are naturally reluctant as a peace-loving people to reach out to far-away conflicts but, as we know, this conflict has been reaching out to us for months now.

The role of CO2 is not nearly as clear as the climate catastrophists would suggest.