So, my friends, in a week or so the Governor-General will swear in a new government.

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

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

I mean there are many, many people in all sorts of different countries who don't have a great life, who are subject to injustice. Are we obliged to take all of them who come here? I think the answer is 'Not necessarily.'

Australia would play its role in taking displaced people from the Syrian conflict.

Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.

This is a government which is proposing to put at risk our manufacturing industry, to penalise struggling families, to make a tough situation worse for millions of households right around Australia. And for what? To make not a scrap of difference to the environment any time in the next 1000 years.