This is to bring home a message to the new government that they have a mandate to make government more honest, more accountable and to make it better.

Sometimes laws are bad because they are undemocratic and sometimes laws are bad because they are archaic, but section 329 (the ban) manages the stunning achievement of being both undemocratic and archaic at the same time.

Same-sex divides all parties, Liberals included, and a better bet for the Tories would be to come out with something that mobilizes their base.

Politics is all about defining yourself and the party you lead before others can define you.

When we arrived on the scene, the home was totally involved.

We weren't expecting a grand slam home run the first time around. We wanted a solid, line-drive single and that's what we got.