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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.
Tony Abbott -
The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go.
Tony Abbott
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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.
Tony Abbott -
I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.
Tony Abbott -
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.
Tony Abbott -
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.
Tony Abbott -
I am extremely unwilling that we should take upon ourselves to exercise a jurisdiction which the law does not vest in us.
Tony Abbott -
The argument behind climate change is absolute crap. However, the politics of this are tough for us. Eighty per cent of people believe climate change is a real and present danger.
Tony Abbott
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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.
Tony Abbott -
We are sticking with the plan. We have a plan to get taxes down, to get regulation down, to get productivity up, to create jobs, to reduce taxes, to boost prosperity. The plan is working and we are sticking with it.
Tony Abbott -
We are about getting things done. We are not about the blame game. We are not about making excuses.
Tony Abbott -
Abortion is the easy way out. It’s hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations.
Tony Abbott -
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.
Tony Abbott -
I think there does need to be give and take on both sides, and this idea that sex is kind of a woman’s right to absolutely withhold, just as the idea that sex is a man’s right to demand I think they are both they both need to be moderated, so to speak.
Tony Abbott
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And a government that accepts that it will be judged more by its deeds than by its mere words.
Tony Abbott -
And the commitment that I've been giving to the Australian people is that there'll be no surprises and no excuses under a Coalition government.
Tony Abbott -
I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society.
Tony Abbott -
They've changed the salesman but they haven't changed the product.
Tony Abbott -
All of the people who are using their BlackBerries or their iPhones, Facebook, all of the people who are sitting in cafes and hotels rooms doing their work, they're all using wireless technology, and we shouldn't assume that the only way of the future is high speed cable.
Tony Abbott -
The last thing Australia needs right now is instability and uncertainty.
Tony Abbott
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I just think that this whole issue of creating potential human life, not to give life, but to give the scientists a bit more of a leg-up, is fraught with danger.
Tony Abbott -
Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted asylum they could have claimed that in any of the countries through which they'd passed.
Tony Abbott -
I think I would say to my daughters if they were to ask me this question... it their virginity is the greatest gift that you can give someone, the ultimate gift of giving and don't give it to someone lightly, that's what I would say.
Tony Abbott -
We've got to maintain freedom of navigation of the seas and in the air.
Tony Abbott