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 think anything which improves services is in principle a good thing.
A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut – it’s a con.
You cannot win an election without a fight.
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.’
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.
I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.
What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the economic mainstream if that’s their choice.
ss If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I’d want to come to Australia
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