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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.
Tony Abbott -
We are a very like-minded group, the senior members of this government. The outliers are not very far away from the mainstream.
Tony Abbott
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We have already provided a strong humanitarian response to the problems in the Middle East and that response will be stronger within coming days.
Tony Abbott -
I do enjoy exercise, not because I am an exercise junkie but because it's terrific stress release.
Tony Abbott -
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.
Tony Abbott -
I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.
Tony Abbott -
A government that says what it means, and means what it says.
Tony Abbott -
The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.
Tony Abbott
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My mum and mad were both very generous, encouraging parents.
Tony Abbott -
I don't think that my particular religious convictions should be held against me in this campaign any more than the Prime Minister's lack of convictions should be held against her.
Tony Abbott -
Now, I know that there are some Aboriginal people who aren’t happy with Australia Day. For them it remains Invasion Day. I think a better view is the view of Noel Pearson, who has said that Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country’s British Heritage.
Tony Abbott -
The problem with politicians getting to know the issues in indigenous townships is that we tend to suffer from what Aboriginal people call the 'seagull syndrome' - we fly in, scratch around and fly out.
Tony Abbott -
I think my wife and my kids are incredibly good to allow me to stay in public life given that they have to cop a whole lot of collateral attention that, being human, they'd rather not get.
Tony Abbott -
A bit of body contact never hurt anyone.
Tony Abbott