I stand for active government, not big government. I stand for government which gets off people's backs, not government which opts out of the future … - Tony Abbott

My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost-of-living pressure. Stopping wasteful and unnecessary spending will keep your interest rates down.

Australians rightly object to higher taxes because they observe that most government spending disappears down a bottomless well. Government often seems like an evening out—it costs a fortune and in the morning there is little to show for all the expense. But it is my hunch that people would be less hostile to paying tax if they were more confident they were investing in lasting assets...

[Victoria] "responded to with the most severe lockdown tried anywhere in the world outside of Wuhan itself".