More excuses for more failures.

I think it's time for the Prime Minister to stop making excuses and to start governing.

My mum and mad were both very generous, encouraging parents.

In the era of mobile phones and emails, you're no more out of the loop in China than you are in Sydney.

And the commitment that I've been giving to the Australian people is that there'll be no surprises and no excuses under a Coalition government.

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.

It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case.