The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go.

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

A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut - it's a con.

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

There is much to be said for an emissions trading scheme. It was, after all, the mechanism for emission reduction ultimately chosen by the Howard government.

You cannot win an election without a fight

I've always been very wary of debates involving women.