NSW Treasurer Mike Baird claims other countries like the UK and Canada have lower GST thresholds for online shopping and that these thresholds can also be achieved in Australia.

Immigration Minister Scott Morrison claims the Coalition's border protection policy has resulted in an 80 per cent reduction in asylum seekers arriving in Australia by boat.

New South Wales Premier Barry O'Farrell claims NSW collects more from proceeds of crime than all other states and the federal government combined.

Government frontbencher Christopher Pyne claims a VIP Boeing business jet flight from Perth to Canberra taken by a group of WA Liberal MPs was probably cheaper than a commercial flight

Prime Minister Tony Abbott claims that under "normal international law", if asylum seeker boats are rescued in a country's search and rescue zone, that country has an obligation to take them.