I instinctively try to protect people from filth.

I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.

Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.

When the world is in trouble, Australia responds. Australia is a good, global citizen.

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

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.

In Australia’s biggest cities, public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still hideous drain on the public purse. Part of the problem is inefficient, overmanned, union-dominated government run train and bus systems. Mostly though, …there just aren’t enough people wanting to go from a particular place to a particular destination at a particular time to justify any vehicle larger than a car, and cars need roads.