Tony Abbott Quotes
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Western civilisation came to this country in 1788 and I'm proud of 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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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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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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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'm not running for canonisation.
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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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We just can't stop people from being homeless if that's their choice.
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I also think that if you want to put a price on carbon, why not just do it with a simple tax? Why not ask motorists to pay more, why not ask electricity consumers to pay more and then at the end of the year you can take your invoices to the tax office and get a rebate of the carbon tax you've paid.
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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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My mum and mad were both very generous, encouraging parents.
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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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The only party which is going to increase taxes after the election is the Labor Party.
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Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted.
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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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I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society.
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I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.
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No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.
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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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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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There are some issues where ministers should come and talk to the prime minister, if the prime minister hasn't already talked to them. Any issue which a minister thinks is going to be profoundly controversial, where we do not have a clear existing position, it is important that there be a conversation between the minister and the prime minister. I think they all understand that and I think it is working very well.
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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.