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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.
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Taxes will always be lower under a Coalition government.
Tony Abbott
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We've got to maintain freedom of navigation of the seas and in the air.
Tony Abbott -
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.
Tony Abbott -
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.
Tony Abbott -
More excuses for more failures.
Tony Abbott -
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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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.
Tony Abbott
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Western civilisation came to this country in 1788 and I'm proud of that...
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My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure.
Tony Abbott -
I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of Australia.
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No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.
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When the world is in trouble, Australia responds. Australia is a good, global citizen.
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The one thing that has changed dramatically when you talk to the people of New Zealand and people from Ireland? They feel a darned-sight better about themselves because they made the decision to do what they've done, and I can say to you, we would feel a bloody darned sight better about ourselves once we get an opportunity to put this vote on same-sex marriage out there.
Tony Abbott
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There is one fundamental message that we want to go out from this place to every nook and cranny of our country: There should be no new tax collection without an election.
Tony Abbott -
It is fit that justice should be administered with great caution.
Tony Abbott -
We've got to get the system right. That's why we've got this root-and-branch reform under way.
Tony Abbott -
Our police, our hard-working police, that our extraordinarily committed and dedicated military personnel, I'm really pleased that they are getting a good paid parental leave scheme.
Tony Abbott -
It is a very heavy responsibility to be a prime-minister to make, but someone has to make it for our country and I am thrilled and honoured to have that opportunity and that responsibility.
Tony Abbott -
The only party which is going to increase taxes after the election is the Labor Party.
Tony Abbott
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Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor.
Tony Abbott -
Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it’s not necessarily everyone’s place to come to Australia.
Tony Abbott -
What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it’s going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up.
Tony Abbott -
We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.
Tony Abbott