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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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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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The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.
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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.
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I instinctively try to protect people from filth.
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I try to treat people as people and not put them in pigeonholes.
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Mates help each other they do not tax each other.
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No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.
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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.
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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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Another big problem with any Australian emissions reduction scheme is that it would not make a material difference to atmospheric carbon concentrations unless the big international polluters had similar schemes.
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If people are going to do things which have certain consequences that they would rather avoid, they should do whatever they need to avoid the consequences.
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We are naturally reluctant as a peace-loving people to reach out to far-away conflicts but, as we know, this conflict has been reaching out to us for months now.
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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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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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The role of CO2 is not nearly as clear as the climate catastrophists would suggest.
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What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the economic mainstream if that's their choice.
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A midnight knock on the door followed by execution is no way a leader should be treated.
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I was pointing out the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia and the fact that Australia has been there for Indonesia when Indonesia has been in difficulty.
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