We shouldn't be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community.

The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother’s convenience.

We will be a consultative, collegial government. No surprises, no excuses. That's what you'll get under the Coalition.

We just can’t stop people from being homeless if that’s their choice.

What will most certainly happen is that there will be very clear and full communication between the government and independents and minor parties. The precise mechanisms will evolve over time, but we certainly intend to keep the minor parties and the independents very much in the loop. We have to if we want our legislative agenda to have a reasonable chance of success and that's what we intend to do.

We are naturally reluctant as a peace-loving people to reach out to far-away conflicts but, as we know, this conflict has been reaching out to us for months now.

There is one fundamental message that we want to go out from this place to every nook and cranny of our country: There should be no new tax collection without an election.