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.

You cannot win an election without a fight

Climate change is crap.

A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source.

The media - and I'm not blaming them - obviously like to seize on the differences between people and, sure, there are some senior members of the government who are in a slightly different philosophical space to mine. But do not underestimate the substantial single-mindedness of this government.

I think anything which improves services is in principle a good thing.

A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut - it's a con.