The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.

No senior politician can expect to have work-life balance. I'm afraid there are some jobs for which work-life balance inevitably goes out the window. If you want work-life balance you just have to accept that you can't be a senior member of a government, or for that matter a senior member of an opposition.

If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth.

I don't think it's a very Christian thing to come in by the back door rather than the front door.

Western civilisation came to this country in 1788 and I'm proud of that...

Mates help each other; they do not tax each other.

No country or continent can open its borders to all comers without fundamentally weakening itself and this is the risk that the countries of Europe run through misguided altruism.