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.

People who have put money aside on the basis of a certain set of rules shouldn't have that money raided just because government has got a problem.

Prima facie, every estate, whether given by will or otherwise, is supposed to be beneficial to the party to whom it is so given.

We are a very like-minded group, the senior members of this government. The outliers are not very far away from the mainstream.

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

Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted asylum they could have claimed that in any of the countries through which they'd passed.

If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.