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Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.

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Tony Abbott
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: November 4
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Prime Minister Of Australia
Anthony John Abbott
Anthony John Tony Abbott
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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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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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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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In the era of mobile phones and emails, you're no more out of the loop in China than you are in Sydney.
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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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Western civilisation came to this country in 1788 and I'm proud of that...
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Voluntary paid maternity leave: yes compulsory paid maternity leave: over this Government’s dead body, frankly. It just won’t happen.
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We are going to be a government of no surprises and no excuses a government which keeps its commitments and a government which is straight and candid with the Australian people and that's what we intend to do.
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Part of my role, I suppose, is to run government business in the House of Representatives, and try to ensure that people know exactly what's going on in the Chamber is an important part of that.
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We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.
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People who have put money aside on the basis of a certain set of rules shouldn't have that money raided just because government has got a problem.
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I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.
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No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.
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The last thing Australia needs right now is instability and uncertainty.
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Well, Michael, we will be telling the people of Australia in good time before the next election exactly what they can expect from us. No surprises, no excuses. They will be our watch words going into the election and afterwards, should we form a government.
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Do we really want to invest $50 billion of hard earned taxpayers money in what is essentially a video entertainment system?
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I want to make it clear that I do not judge or condemn any woman who has had an abortion, but every abortion is a tragedy and up to 100,000 abortions a year is this generation's legacy of unutterable shame.
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If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.
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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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All of the people who are using their BlackBerries or their iPhones, Facebook, all of the people who are sitting in cafes and hotels rooms doing their work, they're all using wireless technology, and we shouldn't assume that the only way of the future is high speed cable.
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