My view is we need the best environment for businesses to grow. That is the best opportunity to ensure wages can lift, not artificially but sustainably.
Firms gain comparative advantage from how good their people are. Retaining and attracting talent is a key point of competitive advantage in the global economy. We are seeing that play out, and there are implications for Australia, too. The idea that companies now compete on who can pay their workers the lowest - that's all changing.
I respect people of all sexualities; I respect people of all religions, all faiths. I love all Australians.
The best thing I can do for someone who's not in a job is get them in a job, and this government has had the greatest success of any government at getting Australians into work.
Our job... as we take forward this mantle of leadership as a new generation is to ensure that we not only bring our party back together, which has been bruised and battered this week, but that... we bring the parliament back together.
Canberra can be a bit of a debating society from time to time.
I can understand that people who have a very different view to mine are motivated by the purest of motives. All I ask is that they might give the same benefit of the doubt to those with whom they might disagree with.
I think it is true that, post the global financial crisis initially - and for some period after that and particularly with how the mining investment boom and commodity prices played out - there was a dislocation that occurred in some of the more traditional mechanisms.
Operation Sovereign Borders has worked and delivered a human dividend that is compassionate and fair... our plan is simple. We won't change it. Labor will.
There are many challenges our country has - our economic security, our national security.
One of the marks of our economic management is that we've always exceeded expectations.
Australia is not a secular country. It is a free country. This is a nation where you have the freedom to follow any belief system you choose.
We will work constructively with China as we always have. Our futures are very much intertwined in the region.
I remember when we came in, in 2013, and I was implementing our border protection policy, people threw their hands up - and I said, 'I'm doing what I said I would do in the way I said I'd do it' - and guess what: I'm now getting the results I said I'd get.
I'm committed to winning. The leadership of the Liberal Party is always the gift of the parliamentary Liberal Party, and I never make any presumptions on it.
Australia's migrant communities have built the country. It has been one of the key pillars of Australia's prosperity over generations.
I don't want the values of others being imposed on my children in my school, and I don't think that should be happening in a public school or a private school.
For me, faith is personal, but the implications are social - as personal and social responsibility are at the heart of the Christian message.
Where I think people are being offensive to religion in this country - whichever religion that might be, but particularly the one I and many other Christians subscribe to - well, we will just call it out, and we will demand the same respect that people should provide to all religions.
I have a track record of under-promising and over-delivering, whether it's on the economy, border protection, welfare reforms.
