A bit of body contact never hurt anyone.
They’ve changed the salesman but they haven’t changed the product.
I am a model of positivity compared to the kinds of vitriol, the kinds of destructive criticisms that Labor members of parliament have been making of each other.
A midnight knock on the door followed by execution is no way a leader should be treated.
We will be a consultative, collegial government. No surprises, no excuses. That’s what you’ll get under the Coalition.
I mean there are many, many people in all sorts of different countries who don’t have a great life, who are subject to injustice. Are we obliged to take all of them who come here? I think the answer is ‘Not necessarily.’
We are sticking with the plan. We have a plan to get taxes down, to get regulation down, to get productivity up, to create jobs, to reduce taxes, to boost prosperity. The plan is working and we are sticking with it.
My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure.
You cannot win an election without a fight.
I think anything which improves services is in principle a good thing.
Today, we have got more excuses from the government.
We are about getting things done. We are not about the blame game. We are not about making excuses.
More excuses for more failures.
I’m getting my exercise at five o’clock in the morning, that’s good. So far I’ve managed to hold on to a bike ride on Saturday or Sunday morning, probably at least two weekends out of three.
Look, good government doesn’t look for excuses, good government gets on with the job.
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.
I’m not really managing the work-life balance, I’m just accepting that the work increases and the ordinary life has to decrease when you’re the prime minister.
Well, Michael, we will be telling the people of Australia in good time before the next election exactly what they can expect from us. No surprises, no excuses. They will be our watch words going into the election and afterwards, should we form a government.
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.
So, my friends, in a week or so the Governor-General will swear in a new government.