Tony Abbott Quotes
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Australia would play its role in taking displaced people from the Syrian conflict.
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I am a model of positivity compared to the kinds of vitriol, the kinds of destructive criticisms that Labor members of parliament have been making of each other.
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Abortion is the easy way out. It’s hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations.
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A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source.
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I try to treat people as people and not put them in pigeonholes.
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It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case.
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Coal is good for humanity, coal is good for prosperity, coal is an essential part of our economic future, here in Australia, and right around the world.
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We will act to build a better world. We always have, we always will. We will act to lend a helping hand, not just here but wherever we humanly can.
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People who have put money aside on the basis of a certain set of rules shouldn't have that money raided just because government has got a problem.
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Once people come to Australia, they join the team.
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Voluntary paid maternity leave: yes; compulsory paid maternity leave: over this Government’s dead body, frankly. It just won’t happen.
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We are naturally reluctant as a peace-loving people to reach out to far-away conflicts but, as we know, this conflict has been reaching out to us for months now.
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I instinctively try to protect people from filth.
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A government that understands the limits of power as well as its potential.
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The sky is where mathematics and magic become one.
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It is very important for our long-term economic future that the relationship with Japan, Korea and China, who are our three biggest trading partners, be ever stronger.
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In drawing an inference or conclusion from facts proved, regard must always be had to the nature of the particular case, and the facility that appears to be afforded, either of explanation or contradiction. No person is to be required to explain or contradict, until enough has been proved to warrant a reasonable and just conclusion against him, in the absence of explanation or contradiction.
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I'm not running for canonisation.
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No country or continent can open its borders to all comers without fundamentally weakening itself and this is the risk that the countries of Europe run through misguided altruism.
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What we are determined to do is to take more people from Syria and that war-torn part of the world as a response to this particular crisis, but again I stress we are taking people from camps because the last thing we want to do is to encourage and reward people smuggling.We are taking people from camps and we are taking family groups; our focus will be on family groups, from persecuted minorities.
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The last thing Australia needs right now is instability and uncertainty.
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Do we really want to invest $50 billion of hard earned taxpayers money in what is essentially a video entertainment system?
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I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked.
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Western civilisation came to this country in 1788 and I'm proud of that...