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.

It is very important for our long-term economic future that the relationship with Japan, Korea and China, who are our three biggest trading partners, be ever stronger.

My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure

Climate change is crap.

I want to make it clear that I do not judge or condemn any woman who has had an abortion, but every abortion is a tragedy and up to 100,000 abortions a year is this generation's legacy of unutterable shame.

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

I think there is no doubt that the advent of 24/7 news channels, which are voracious in their demand for constant new content, has accelerated the political process. The rise of social media, in addition to talkback, I think has intensified the political process.