Our job as a government is to start with the great underpinnings of our current economic growth - particularly defence and mining - and build on these.

We will also have a more rigorous approach to professional development and managing unsatisfactory performance.

I believe that investing in our children's development from the earliest age is the single most important contribution we can make to the health and wellbeing of our citizens, their capacity and the future prosperity of our state.

There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.

If immigration reform doesn't happen, that doesn't say good things about our democracy, that everybody wants it, but Congress couldn't pass it.

Of course Trump thinks he is above the law. For his entire life, he has been able to say and do whatever he felt like saying or doing - not just without consequence, but he has been able to say or do whatever he felt like saying or doing - and rise up all the way to the position of President of the United States.

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

I think the part of my acting career where I've been more successful, I've been incredibly cushioned. People are much too nice to you. You go into politics, and people are absolutely brutal. You've got proper enemies, and they're vicious. It's very invigorating.