I think we've produced a stronger prohibition on real racism, while maintaining freedom of speech in ordinary public discussion. So I'm very comfortable with where we're at. We're not dogmatic or impervious to a further argument, that's why we released it as an exposure draft rather than simply releasing it straight into the parliament.

In Australia’s biggest cities, public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still hideous drain on the public purse. Part of the problem is inefficient, overmanned, union-dominated government run train and bus systems. Mostly though, …there just aren’t enough people wanting to go from a particular place to a particular destination at a particular time to justify any vehicle larger than a car, and cars need roads.

Should we choose to extend our airstrikes into Syria, we will be doing this in the collective self-defence of Iraq. We would be doing this out of a responsibility to protect innocent people at risk of horrible death from the most violent people imaginable.

We shouldn't be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community.

For small business men and women, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.

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.

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.