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

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.

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.

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

If you feel all damp and lonely like a mushroom, find the thick, creamy soup of joyfulness and just dive into it in order to make life tastier

Real men don’t kiss with the gentleness of a butterfly’s wing.

I love a challenge, and trying to become the first person to break the speed of sound in freefall is a challenge like no other.

Sweet flower, thou tellest how hearts as pure and tender as thy leaf, as low and humble as thy stem, will surely know the joy that peace imparts.

We are not the survival of the fittest. We are the survival of the nurtured.

Such crimes has superstition caused.

If childhood is still a state, it is now chiefly a state of confusion.

I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.

Trickle down economics creates a nation of peons.