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.

A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut - it's a con.

I think that people should come to Australia through the front door, not through the back door. If people want a migration outcome, they should go through the migration channels.

We have a strong and credible broadband policy because the man who has devised it, the man who will implement it virtually invented the Internet in this country.

It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case.

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

We are a very like-minded group, the senior members of this government. The outliers are not very far away from the mainstream.