I Can't Promise That I Won't Continue

There Is One Fundamental Message That We Want To Go Out From This Place To Every Nook And Cranny Of Our Country: There Should Be No New Tax Collection Without An Election.

The Media - And I'm Not Blaming Them - Obviously Like To Seize On The Differences Between People And, Sure, There Are Some Senior Members Of The Government Who Are In A Slightly Different Philosophical Space To Mine. But Do Not Underestimate The Substantial Single-mindedness Of This Government.

Why Isn’t The Fact That 100,000 Women Choose To End Their Pregnancies Regarded As A National Tragedy Approaching The Scale, Say, Of Aboriginal Life Expectancy Being 20 Years Less Than That Of The General Community?

What We Are Determined To Do Is To Take More People From Syria And That War-torn Part Of The World As A Response To This Particular Crisis, But Again I Stress We Are Taking People From Camps Because The Last Thing We Want To Do Is To Encourage And Reward People Smuggling.we Are Taking People From Camps And We Are Taking Family Groups; Our Focus Will Be On Family Groups, From Persecuted Minorities.

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.