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

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" The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go. "

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

" Climate change is crap. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I think anything which improves services is in principle a good thing. "

" All of the people who are using their BlackBerries or their iPhones, Facebook, all of the people who are sitting in cafes and hotels rooms doing their work, they're all using wireless technology, and we shouldn't assume that the only way of the future is high speed cable. "

" I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 try to treat people as people and not put them in pigeonholes. "

" You cannot win an election without a fight. "

" I don't think my religious convictions should be held against me. "

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

" The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother's convenience. "

" I'm not running for canonisation. "

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

" I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists. "

" I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics. "

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

" To move past fear is a cliche. "