I was a very senior minister in the Howard government and I sat around this particular table [in the prime ministerial office] in many discussions. The difference between being a senior minister and the prime minister is that ultimately the buck does stop with the prime minister and in the end the prime minister has to make those critical judgement calls and that's the big difference.

A government that says what it means, and means what it says.

Part of my role, I suppose, is to run government business in the House of Representatives, and try to ensure that people know exactly what's going on in the Chamber is an important part of that.

The only party which is going to increase taxes after the election is the Labor Party.

We can't conclusively say whether man-made carbon dioxide emissions are contributing to climate change.

Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it’s not necessarily everyone’s place to come to Australia.

Whether carbon dioxide is quite the environmental villain that some people make it out to be is not yet proven.