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

I'm confident that there are plenty of people who have the strength of character and the presence of mind to warn me of difficulties and alert me to opportunities.

I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.

If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth.

I want to make it clear that I do not judge or condemn any woman who has had an abortion, but every abortion is a tragedy and up to 100,000 abortions a year is this generation's legacy of unutterable shame.

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

There'll be some savings from preventing double dipping by public servants which are currently able to access not one but two fully tax payer funded schemes and of course there will be out paid parental leave levy. So all up not only is this an important economic reform, an important reform to have to grow our economy more strongly, it also will leave the budget better off which will help us fix the mess that Labor has created with the budget.