We are naturally reluctant as a peace-loving people to reach out to far-away conflicts but, as we know, this conflict has been reaching out to us for months now.
Prima facie, every estate, whether given by will or otherwise, is supposed to be beneficial to the party to whom it is so given.
Labor has come out with a series of proposals to increase taxes, including taxes on people across Australia saving for their retirement, he has actually identified so far zero dollars in spending reductions.
Today, we have got more excuses from the government.
Now if you are condemned to life on welfare, I'm not so sure that being in a bigger welfare village is that much better than being in a smaller welfare village.
The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens.
Here we go again, a government which is making yet more excuses for yet more failure when it comes to getting our budgetary situation right.
My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure
I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.
You try turning up in America without documents, without a visa, without a passport; you'll be treated as very, very much illegal.
It is very important for our long-term economic future that the relationship with Japan, Korea and China, who are our three biggest trading partners, be ever stronger.
No cuts to health , no cuts to education, no cuts to pensions.
To move past fear is a cliche.
I want to make it clear that I do not judge or condemn any woman who has had an abortion, but every abortion is a tragedy and up to 100,000 abortions a year is this generation's legacy of unutterable shame.
In the era of mobile phones and emails, you're no more out of the loop in China than you are in Sydney.
Australia would play its role in taking displaced people from the Syrian conflict.
If you want to put a price on carbon why not just do it with a simple tax?
What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it’s going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up.
If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth.
We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration.
And the commitment that I've been giving to the Australian people is that there'll be no surprises and no excuses under a Coalition government.
A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source.
I want to run a government, Barnaby wants to be part of a government, which is characterized by the motto if you like, no surprises, no excuses. That will be the motto of an incoming Coalition government. No surprises, no excuses.
It was a positive sign that the conversation took place, it's a sign of the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia.
I do enjoy exercise, not because I am an exercise junkie but because it's terrific stress release.
