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" My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure. "

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" I think that the best things that governments can do for productivity is not whack on new taxes and, if we can get institutions like schools and hospitals functioning better, well that's obviously good for the overall productiveness of our society. "

" I think my wife and my kids are incredibly good to allow me to stay in public life given that they have to cop a whole lot of collateral attention that, being human, they'd rather not get. "

" Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted. "

" Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics. "

" My mum and mad were both very generous, encouraging parents. "

" I instinctively try to protect people from filth. "

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

" The problem with politicians getting to know the issues in indigenous townships is that we tend to suffer from what Aboriginal people call the 'seagull syndrome' - we fly in, scratch around and fly out. "

" I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society. "

" The smart way to improve broadband is not to junk the existing network but to make the most of it. It's to let a competitive market deliver the speeds that people need at an affordable price with government improving infrastructure in the areas where market competition won't deliver it. "

" If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth. "

" I mean there are many, many people in all sorts of different countries who don't have a great life, who are subject to injustice. Are we obliged to take all of them who come here? I think the answer is 'Not necessarily.' "

" Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted asylum they could have claimed that in any of the countries through which they'd passed. "

" If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia. "

" Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy. "

" Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow. "

" What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the economic mainstream if that's their choice. "

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

" The truth is I try to take people as I find them. "

" Climate change is crap. "

" I do enjoy exercise, not because I am an exercise junkie but because it's terrific stress release. "

" To move past fear is a cliche. "

" You cannot win an election without a fight. "

" It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case. "

" I want to see an end to sovereign risk questions over Australia. "

" I'm not saying that people on welfare don't contribute in their own way, but as many as possible should be encouraged to be economically active as well as socially and culturally active. "

" I think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there are all sorts of other relationships which should be acknowledged and recognised, but I don't know that they can be recognised as marriage. "

" A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut - it's a con. "

" I see myself as a social conservative, but I think that there are lots of social institutions that produce beneficial reforms, like public hospitals, for instance, and schools. "

" Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account. "