Tony Abbott Quotes
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What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the economic mainstream if that's their choice.
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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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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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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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The only party which is going to increase taxes after the election is the Labor Party.
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The role of CO2 is not nearly as clear as the climate catastrophists would suggest.
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No cuts to health , no cuts to education, no cuts to pensions.
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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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It was a positive sign that the conversation took place, it's a sign of the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia.
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Western civilisation came to this country in 1788 and I'm proud of that...
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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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Tony Abbott's books are so amazing!
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The last thing Australia needs right now is instability and uncertainty.
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I'm not running for canonisation.
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I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society.
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I am not being negative, I am simply being factual when I say Kevin Rudd is the best friend the people smugglers have ever had.
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I think we've produced a stronger prohibition on real racism, while maintaining freedom of speech in ordinary public discussion. So I'm very comfortable with where we're at. We're not dogmatic or impervious to a further argument, that's why we released it as an exposure draft rather than simply releasing it straight into the parliament.
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So, my friends, in a week or so the Governor-General will swear in a new government.
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Part of my role, I suppose, is to run government business in the House of Representatives, and try to ensure that people know exactly what's going on in the Chamber is an important part of that.
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I want to be a very good friend to Indonesia, but there are some things which are non-negotiable. Border protection is just non-negotiable. Maintaining a strong security network is just non-negotiable. I think the Indonesians understand that.
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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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My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure.
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We just can't stop people from being homeless if that's their choice.
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In Australia’s biggest cities, public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still hideous drain on the public purse. Part of the problem is inefficient, overmanned, union-dominated government run train and bus systems. Mostly though, …there just aren’t enough people wanting to go from a particular place to a particular destination at a particular time to justify any vehicle larger than a car, and cars need roads.