"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."

"Well, that was one boat that did get stopped, wasn't it?"

"The Jesuits had helped to instil in me this thought that our calling in life was to be, to use the phrase: 'a man for others'."

"No cuts to education, no cuts to health, no change to pensions, no change to the GST and no cuts to the ABC or SBS"

"Fire is a part of the Australian experience."

"No one, however smart, however well educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom."

"As you watch her story tonight, I know you will see the friend I know - a person of strength, intellect, capacity and truly remarkable courage."

"We are Liberals who believe in smaller government, lower taxes, greater freedom."

"This government thinks that somehow you can build prosperity with new taxes. No country ever got rich by increasing taxation. No country ever built a strong economy by clobbering itself with tax after tax after tax."

"There is one fundamental message that we want to go out from this place to every nook and cranny of our country: There should be no new tax collection without an election."

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

"I normally have them cooked on the barbecue, but I enjoy onions!"

"I mean, the Nazis did terrible evil but they had a sufficient sense of shame to try to hide it"

"You know, I went to a Catholic school as a kid but no one did anything to me. Maybe I wasn't good-looking enough."

"At least so far, it’s climate change policy that’s doing harm. Climate change itself is probably doing good; or at least, more good than harm."

"Climate change is by no means the sole or even the most significant symptom of the changing interests and values of the West. Still, only societies with high levels of cultural amnesia – that have forgotten the scriptures about man created 'in the image and likeness of God' and charged with 'subduing the earth and all its creatures' – could have made such a religion out of it."

"More than 100 years of photography at Manly Beach in my electorate does not suggest that sea levels have risen despite frequent reports from climate alarmists that this is imminent."

"Unsurprisingly, the recipients of climate change subsidies and climate change research grants think action is very urgent indeed. As for the general public, of course saving the planet counts – until the bills come in and then the humbug detector is switched on."

"Thank you for putting up with the invasion"

"Rootless, cosmopolitan intellectuals parading their moral superiority, or masters of high finance dressing up self-interest as economic correctness, are not for him."

"For me, as for every leader of the Liberal Party, encouragement for the family, support for small business and respect for values and institutions that have stood the test of time are at the heart of my public life."

"Even the toughest politicians sometimes wonder whether political life is worth the personal cost."

"I have often pondered the psychology of people who seem uncomfortable with the society that has formed them. There is much about Australia I would like to change, but not its fundamentals."

"Only on the sports field are the British an alien tribe."

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

"Dealing with terrorism and the Islamist fanaticism that inspires it is the great challenge of our time. Obviously there needs to be a very strong security response at home and abroad."

"The security response is necessary but it’s not sufficient. There also needs to be a concerted “hearts and minds” campaign against the versions of Islam that make excuses for terrorists."

"Although most Muslims utterly reject terrorism, some are all too ready to justify “death to the infidel”."

"We can’t remain in denial about the massive problem within Islam."

"Islam never had its own version of the Reformation and the Enlightenment or a consequent acceptance of pluralism and the . Fortunately there are numerous Muslim leaders who think their faith needs to modernise from the kill-or-be-killed milieu of the Prophet Mohammed."

"Islam needs to delegitimise the urge to “behead all those who insult the Prophet” but only Muslims can do this. That’s why everyone interested in a safer world should be reaching out to “live and let live” Muslims and encouraging them to reclaim their faith from the zealots."

"It’s also time Australians stopped being apologetic about the values that have made our country as free, fair and prosperous as any on Earth."

"Where hate preaching is not illegal it should at least be thoroughly answered point-by-point with a very robust defence of human rights and responsibilities."

"Cultures are not all equal. We should be ready to proclaim the clear superiority of our culture to one that justifies killing people in the name of God."

"To live in Australia is to have won the lottery of life — unless you happen to be one of those whose ancestors have been here for tens of thousands of years. That’s the Australian paradox. Vast numbers of people from around the world would risk death to be here, yet the First Australians often live in the conditions that people come to Australia to escape. We are the very best of countries, except for the people who were here first."

"We need to attract and retain better teachers to remote schools. And we need to empower remote community leadership that’s ready to take more responsibility for what happens there. The objective is not to dictate to the states their decisions about teachers’ pay but to work with them so that whatever they do is more effective. It’s not to impose new rules on remote communities but to work with local leaders who want change for the better."

"However long my public life lasts — in government or out of it, in parliament or out of it — I intend to persevere in this cause. Some missions, once accepted, can never really cease. Of course, the future for Aboriginal people lies much more in their own hands than in mine, but getting more of them to school, and making their schooling more useful, is a duty that government must not shirk. An ex-PM has just one unique trait, and that’s a very big megaphone, and I will continue to use it to see this done."

"I don't really do diplomacy"

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

"I hate being on my best behavior. It brings out the absolute worst in me."

"The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more."

"There is a legend about a bird that sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. Dying, it rises above its own agony to out-carol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles. For the best is only bought at the cost of the great pain. … Or so says the legend."

"The Labor Party is not going to profit from having these proven unsuccessful people around who are frightened of their own shadow and won't get out of bed in the morning unless they've had a focus group report to tell them which side of bed to get out."

"Silly what's his name, the Shrek, whoever he was on the television this morning?"

"He’s the greatest L plater of all time."

"Clodhopper"

"I used to refer to him as Thallium, a slow acting dope"

"This is a low-flying person."

"While frenetic activity, in the end suiting journos; running at the behest of little press secretaries does not pay off"