I instinctively try to protect people from filth.

The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens.

A midnight knock on the door followed by execution is no way a leader should be treated.

In respect of Indonesia, I am determined to be the best possible friend of Indonesia that I can be, consistent with my overriding duty to protect our country. We would never do anything that was damaging to Indonesia, because we want Indonesia to flourish. We want Indonesia to take its rightful place as one of the really important countries of the world, as it will, sooner or later.

I am, as you know, hugely unconvinced by the so-called settled science on climate change.

What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it’s going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up.

If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.