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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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Tony Abbott
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: November 4
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Prime Minister Of Australia
Anthony John Abbott
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I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.
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No cuts to health , no cuts to education, no cuts to pensions.
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Australia would play its role in taking displaced people from the Syrian conflict.
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The only party which is going to increase taxes after the election is the Labor Party.
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So, my friends, in a week or so the Governor-General will swear in a new government.
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I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of Australia.
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