We are about getting things done. We are not about the blame game. We are not about making excuses.

Here we go again, a government which is making yet more excuses for yet more failure when it comes to getting our budgetary situation right.

In drawing an inference or conclusion from facts proved, regard must always be had to the nature of the particular case, and the facility that appears to be afforded, either of explanation or contradiction. No person is to be required to explain or contradict, until enough has been proved to warrant a reasonable and just conclusion against him, in the absence of explanation or contradiction.

Whether carbon dioxide is quite the environmental villain that some people make it out to be is not yet proven.

I want to see an end to sovereign risk questions over Australia.

The media - and I'm not blaming them - obviously like to seize on the differences between people and, sure, there are some senior members of the government who are in a slightly different philosophical space to mine. But do not underestimate the substantial single-mindedness of this government.

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.