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

The argument [behind climate change] is absolute crap. However, the politics of this are tough for us. Eighty per cent of people believe climate change is a real and present danger.

Another big problem with any Australian emissions reduction scheme is that it would not make a material difference to atmospheric carbon concentrations unless the big international polluters had similar schemes.

We've got to maintain freedom of navigation of the seas and in the air.

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

And a government that accepts that it will be judged more by its deeds than by its mere words.

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