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

I'm not running for canonisation.

I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.

I am, as you know, hugely unconvinced by the so-called settled science on climate change.

I don't think it's a very Christian thing to come in by the back door rather than the front door.

To be sociable, I puffed on a marijuana cigarette, but I didn't inhale...I just hate the idea of drawing smoke into my lungs.

What we are determined to do is to take more people from Syria and that war-torn part of the world as a response to this particular crisis, but again I stress we are taking people from camps because the last thing we want to do is to encourage and reward people smuggling.We are taking people from camps and we are taking family groups; our focus will be on family groups, from persecuted minorities.