Look, good government doesn't look for excuses, good government gets on with the job.

Do we really want to invest $50 billion of hard earned taxpayers money in what is essentially a video entertainment system?

I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons.

I try to treat people as people and not put them in pigeonholes.

There is much to be said for an emissions trading scheme. It was, after all, the mechanism for emission reduction ultimately chosen by the Howard government.

I think my wife and my kids are incredibly good to allow me to stay in public life given that they have to cop a whole lot of collateral attention that, being human, they'd rather not get.

I think anything which improves services is in principle a good thing.