Rob Borbidge

Well, I did. What? I did. You did what? I took the stand. I was prepared to face the political consequences. And we delivered gun control.

We paid a high political price, but we did the right thing. Look, there are Australians alive today because we took that action. I mean, how much is a life worth?

Making society a better place.

What makes a politician successful? Well, it's your responsibility to govern in the best interests of the people that you serve.

I hope you got a lot of tape.

I hope that they would have a look at what has happened here. Why would people want to live like this? Because they might want a safer society to live in.

That government was becoming a dictatorship. All right, that's one. We were told that people would not have the right to defend their property and their families. OK, that's definitely two. Democracy is at stake somehow if... the government decides there should be a background check. Yeah, all right. That we're about to be invaded by the Indonesians. That's completely different.