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

If you don't want to work weekends, don't.

There are tens, perhaps hundreds of millions of people living in poverty and danger who might readily seek to enter a Western country if the opportunity is there.

You try turning up in America without documents, without a visa, without a passport; you'll be treated as very, very much illegal.

What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the economic mainstream if that's their choice.

I've always been very wary of debates involving women.

I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of Australia.