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

To move past fear is a cliche.

When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire.

Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor

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

And a government that accepts that it will be judged more by its deeds than by its mere words.

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.