Tony Abbott Quotes
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Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor.
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Australia would play its role in taking displaced people from the Syrian conflict.
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I instinctively try to protect people from filth.
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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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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 am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society.
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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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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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We are about getting things done. We are not about the blame game. We are not about making excuses.
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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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I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.
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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.
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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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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 last thing Australia needs right now is instability and uncertainty.
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My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure.
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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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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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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.
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Tony Abbott's books are so amazing!
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I'm not running for canonisation.
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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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We just can't stop people from being homeless if that's their choice.
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Western civilisation came to this country in 1788 and I'm proud of that...