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Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country's British heritage.
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If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth.
Tony Abbott
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For small business men and women, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.
Tony Abbott -
This is a government which is proposing to put at risk our manufacturing industry, to penalise struggling families, to make a tough situation worse for millions of households right around Australia. And for what? To make not a scrap of difference to the environment any time in the next 1000 years.
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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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There's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!
Tony Abbott -
I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.
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We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration.
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Every prime minister has a whole series of networks, and there are official formal networks and there are unofficial informal networks. I'm lucky in that I have good official formal networks, starting with my own office, the leadership group, the cabinet and the party room.
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In respect of Indonesia, I am determined to be the best possible friend of Indonesia that I can be, consistent with my overriding duty to protect our country. We would never do anything that was damaging to Indonesia, because we want Indonesia to flourish. We want Indonesia to take its rightful place as one of the really important countries of the world, as it will, sooner or later.
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We just can't stop people from being homeless if that's their choice.
Tony Abbott -
I am, as you know, hugely unconvinced by the so-called settled science on climate change.
Tony Abbott -
No senior politician can expect to have work-life balance. I'm afraid there are some jobs for which work-life balance inevitably goes out the window. If you want work-life balance you just have to accept that you can't be a senior member of a government, or for that matter a senior member of an opposition.
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We are looking at what more we can do. As well as a strong security response we need a strong humanitarian one.
Tony Abbott
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To move past fear is a cliche.
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Look, good government doesn't look for excuses, good government gets on with the job.
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Tony Abbott's books are so amazing!
Tony Abbott -
Climate change is crap.
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I see myself as a social conservative, but I think that there are lots of social institutions that produce beneficial reforms, like public hospitals, for instance, and schools.
Tony Abbott -
The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother’s convenience.
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We are a very like-minded group, the senior members of this government. The outliers are not very far away from the mainstream.
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The thing about social media is that it is anonymous, so it can be much more vitriolic and extreme than normal media and yet it is there for everyone to see. It is kind of like electronic graffiti. The political process is accelerated and intense in a way that I don't believe it ever really has been before.
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The smart way to improve broadband is not to junk the existing network but to make the most of it. It’s to let a competitive market deliver the speeds that people need at an affordable price with government improving infrastructure in the areas where market competition won’t deliver it.
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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.
Tony Abbott