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

There may not be a great job for [Aboriginal people] but whatever there is, they just have to do it, and if it’s picking up rubbish around the community, it just has to be done.

A government that says what it means, and means what it says.

This is a government which is proposing to put at risk our manufacturing industry, to penalise struggling families, to make a tough situation worse for millions of households right around Australia. And for what? To make not a scrap of difference to the environment any time in the next 1000 years.

They've changed the salesman but they haven't changed the product.

We've got to get the system right. That's why we've got this root-and-branch reform under way.

It is fit that justice should be administered with great caution.