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

There's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!

If people are going to do things which have certain consequences that they would rather avoid, they should do whatever they need to avoid the consequences.

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.

I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society

Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted.

Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted asylum they could have claimed that in any of the countries through which they'd passed.