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I have close family members as well as lots of close friends who are gay. Many of them strongly support gay marriage.

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Tony Abbott
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: November 4
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Prime Minister Of Australia
Anthony John Abbott
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We will be a consultative, collegial government. No surprises, no excuses. That's what you'll get under the Coalition.
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I am a model of positivity compared to the kinds of vitriol, the kinds of destructive criticisms that Labor members of parliament have been making of each other.
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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.
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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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No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.
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I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society
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I'm not really managing the work-life balance, I'm just accepting that the work increases and the ordinary life has to decrease when you're the prime minister.
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The fact is that I'm interested in getting on with my job of holding the Government to account and I think that the Government should get on with the job of effectively running the country and not making excuses for poor performance, not lowering expectations. Their job is to deliver on their election commitments.
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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.
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Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.
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Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy.
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We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.
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Australia will take more refugees from Syria in response to the growing international crisis but it will not increase the total number of asylum seekers it accepts.
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More excuses for more failures.
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