We just can't stop people from being homeless if that's their choice.
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For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.
If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth.
The problem with politicians getting to know the issues in indigenous townships is that we tend to suffer from what Aboriginal people call the 'seagull syndrome' - we fly in, scratch around and fly out.
I have close family members as well as lots of close friends who are gay. Many of them strongly support gay marriage.
Climate change is crap.
If people are going to do things which have certain consequences that they would rather avoid, they should do whatever they need to avoid the consequences.
If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.
I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all else, observe the first maxim of good government: namely, do no avoidable harm.
I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.
Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted asylum they could have claimed that in any of the countries through which they'd passed.
Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.
The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go.
I do enjoy exercise, not because I am an exercise junkie but because it's terrific stress release.
Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics.
I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked.
I think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there are all sorts of other relationships which should be acknowledged and recognised, but I don't know that they can be recognised as marriage.
I think that the best things that governments can do for productivity is not whack on new taxes and, if we can get institutions like schools and hospitals functioning better, well that's obviously good for the overall productiveness of our society.
The smart way to improve broadband is not to junk the existing network but to make the most of it. It's to let a competitive market deliver the speeds that people need at an affordable price with government improving infrastructure in the areas where market competition won't deliver it.
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.'
I think that people should come to Australia through the front door, not through the back door. If people want a migration outcome, they should go through the migration channels.
I'm not saying that people on welfare don't contribute in their own way, but as many as possible should be encouraged to be economically active as well as socially and culturally active.
It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case.
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.
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