Now if you are condemned to life on welfare, I'm not so sure that being in a bigger welfare village is that much better than being in a smaller welfare village.

I think we've produced a stronger prohibition on real racism, while maintaining freedom of speech in ordinary public discussion. So I'm very comfortable with where we're at. We're not dogmatic or impervious to a further argument, that's why we released it as an exposure draft rather than simply releasing it straight into the parliament.

We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration.

We shouldn't be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community.

The climate change argument is absolute crap

And a government that accepts that it will be judged more by its deeds than by its mere words.

I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons.