A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut - it's a con.

The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens.

A bit of body contact never hurt anyone.

I see myself as a social conservative, but I think that there are lots of social institutions that produce beneficial reforms, like public hospitals, for instance, and schools.

The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go.

Voluntary paid maternity leave: yes; compulsory paid maternity leave: over this Government’s dead body, frankly. It just won’t happen.

No senior politician can expect to have work-life balance. I'm afraid there are some jobs for which work-life balance inevitably goes out the window. If you want work-life balance you just have to accept that you can't be a senior member of a government, or for that matter a senior member of an opposition.