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It is unmanly. It is not some expression of macho virtue. It is the absolute antithesis of this. Real men don't bully women and children. Respect for women ... is so important.

Malcolm Turnbull

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Malcolm Turnbull
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 24
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To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry.
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People learn from failure or from lack of success.
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Government will not nominate the former Labor prime minister [Kevin Rudd] to be the UN's next secretary-general.
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Look at countries like China, they are determined to dominate all clean technology areas, putting lots of money into wind, solar, electric vehicles and battery storage. America's political impotence, caused by their terrible partisanship, will see them left behind.
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My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.
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I have always been generous because I know that I have done well in life and I believe it is part of my duty to give back. So I am always been philanthropic.
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If consulted by friends about marital dramas, I always encourage the singles to marry, the married to stick together, the neglectful and wayward to renew their loving commitment and the wronged to forgive.
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I'm sick of the cover-ups, I'm sick of the lies, and so are the bloody veterans, that come out daily of the department's mouth.
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China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.
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Americans understand that they have no stronger ally, no better friend, than Australia.
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You will never find a better friend to the United States than Australia.
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