Why isn’t the fact that 100,000 women choose to end their pregnancies regarded as a national tragedy approaching the scale, say, of Aboriginal life expectancy being 20 years less than that of the general community?

There is one fundamental message that we want to go out from this place to every nook and cranny of our country: There should be no new tax collection without an election.

And the commitment that I've been giving to the Australian people is that there'll be no surprises and no excuses under a Coalition government.

In the era of mobile phones and emails, you're no more out of the loop in China than you are in Sydney.

What will most certainly happen is that there will be very clear and full communication between the government and independents and minor parties. The precise mechanisms will evolve over time, but we certainly intend to keep the minor parties and the independents very much in the loop. We have to if we want our legislative agenda to have a reasonable chance of success and that's what we intend to do.

We just can’t stop people from being homeless if that’s their choice.

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