If you want to put a price on carbon why not just do it with a simple tax?

I think that people should come to Australia through the front door, not through the back door. If people want a migration outcome, they should go through the migration channels.

I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.

Abortion is the easy way out. It’s hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations.

We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.

Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it’s not necessarily everyone’s place to come to Australia.

No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.

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

I'm focused on doing the job the treasurer should do.I don't respond to gossip.

Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country's British heritage

The last thing Australia needs right now is instability and uncertainty.

The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.

An effective Board can connect all the right dots well.

They run, they touch, they learn, they play, They listen, they work hard at growing all day.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

You cannot hide; your growth as an artist is not separate from your growth as a human being: it is all visible.

I never had a rivalry with Madonna. You don't knock another sister, ever. There's room for everybody on this planet; you don't have to be like anyone else.

Everyone is in love with the impossible; the impossible gives you neverending dreams and neverending hopes.

There have always been people who have written me off. They're not going away. I use that to motivate me. I'm driven to show them just how wrong they are.