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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

You cannot win an election without a fight.

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

There are no factions in the Liberal Party.

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

I have close family members as well as lots of close friends who are gay. Many of them strongly support gay marriage.

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.

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

I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all else, observe the first maxim of good government: namely, do no avoidable harm.

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.

For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.

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 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.

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 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.

I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked.

I instinctively try to protect people from filth.

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.

Climate change is crap.

Once people come to Australia, they join the team.

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

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