There is one fundamental message that we want to go out from this place to every nook and cranny of our country: There should be no new tax collection without an election.

Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor

Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.

If you don't want to work weekends, don't.

A government that says what it means, and means what it says.

I'm not really managing the work-life balance, I'm just accepting that the work increases and the ordinary life has to decrease when you're the prime minister.

I am extremely unwilling that we should take upon ourselves to exercise a jurisdiction which the law does not vest in us.