If I am elected leader, my shadow opposition team will actively incorporate the policy contributions of all our members by instituting policy action committees as recommend by the 2010 National Review.

We commissioned an independent statutory economic body - the Productivity Commission - to review the possibility of funding a disability scheme. The commission returned with a view that it could. Then it becomes an issue of national will.

I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.

I am about as detailed as a shadow.

I consider myself a leader. I am not a follower.

I am tough but I have a soft side.