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The Fact Is That I'm Interested In Getting On With My Job Of Holding The Government To Account And I Think That The Government Should Get On With The Job Of Effectively Running The Country And Not Making Excuses For Poor Performance, Not Lowering Expectations. Their Job Is To Deliver On Their Election Commitments.

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.

I Am, As You Know, Hugely Unconvinced By The So-called Settled Science On Climate Change.

We Are About Getting Things Done. We Are Not About The Blame Game. We Are Not About Making Excuses.

In Respect Of Indonesia, I Am Determined To Be The Best Possible Friend Of Indonesia That I Can Be, Consistent With My Overriding Duty To Protect Our Country. We Would Never Do Anything That Was Damaging To Indonesia, Because We Want Indonesia To Flourish. We Want Indonesia To Take Its Rightful Place As One Of The Really Important Countries Of The World, As It Will, Sooner Or Later.