I have often said that Australia's foreign policy should have a Jakarta rather than a Geneva focus... - Tony Abbott

We pledge to the families of Australia that we will never make your lives harder by imposing unnecessary new taxes.

In politics, what's not reported might as well not have happened.

The love and commitment between two people of the same sex can be as strong as that between husband and wife... There is more moral quality in a relationship between two people devoted to each other for decades than in many a short-lived marriage. Still, however deeply affectionate or long lasting it may be, the relationship between two people of the same sex cannot be a marriage because a marriage, by definition, is between a man and a woman... Let's celebrate all strong relationships, whether they are between a man and a woman or between people of the same sex but let's be careful about describing every lasting sexual bond as a 'marriage'."