I want to see an end to sovereign risk questions over Australia.

We've got to get the system right. That's why we've got this root-and-branch reform under way.

The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.

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

I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of Australia.

When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire.

Now, I know that there are some Aboriginal people who aren’t happy with Australia Day. For them it remains Invasion Day. I think a better view is the view of Noel Pearson, who has said that Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country’s British Heritage.