Environment Minister Greg Hunt claims the Coalition's emissions reduction fund is around 1 per cent of the cost of reducing carbon under the former Labor government's carbon pricing scheme.

Federal Assistant Minister for Health Ken Wyatt claims diabetes is a growing global issue. Mr Wyatt said "if diabetes was a country it would be the fifth largest country in the world".

Treasurer Scott Morrison claims Australia has a spending problem, not a revenue problem.

The party sometimes forgets that Liberal leaders have been most electorally successful when they’ve governed from the centre Malcolm Turnbull’s accession to the prime ministership presents us with a paradox. His leadership is a return to Liberal Party orthodoxy, yet the forces most opposed to him are within his own ranks. On early indications –...

The Government has responded to the unfolding humanitarian crisis in the Middle East by announcing Australia will take an additional 12,000 refugees fleeing Syria and Iraq in 2015-16, which Foreign Minister Julie Bishop claims amounts to the single larges