I don't bring religion into the square.

Here we go again, a government which is making yet more excuses for yet more failure when it comes to getting our budgetary situation right.

The smart way to improve broadband is not to junk the existing network but to make the most of it. It’s to let a competitive market deliver the speeds that people need at an affordable price with government improving infrastructure in the areas where market competition won’t deliver it.

Now if you are condemned to life on welfare, I'm not so sure that being in a bigger welfare village is that much better than being in a smaller welfare village.

Every prime minister has a whole series of networks, and there are official formal networks and there are unofficial informal networks. I'm lucky in that I have good official formal networks, starting with my own office, the leadership group, the cabinet and the party room.

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

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