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We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.

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Tony Abbott
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: November 4
Politician
Prime Minister Of Australia
Anthony John Abbott
Anthony John Tony Abbott
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No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.
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I don't think it's a very Christian thing to come in by the back door rather than the front door.
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We are sticking with the plan. We have a plan to get taxes down, to get regulation down, to get productivity up, to create jobs, to reduce taxes, to boost prosperity. The plan is working and we are sticking with it.
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I think my wife and my kids are incredibly good to allow me to stay in public life given that they have to cop a whole lot of collateral attention that, being human, they'd rather not get.
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A government that understands the limits of power as well as its potential.
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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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No cuts to health , no cuts to education, no cuts to pensions.
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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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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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Mates help each other they do not tax each other.
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There will be no overall increase in the tax burden whatsoever.
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The smart way to improve broadband is not to junk the existing network but to make the most of it. It’s to let a competitive market deliver the speeds that people need at an affordable price with government improving infrastructure in the areas where market competition won’t deliver it.
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I just think that this whole issue of creating potential human life, not to give life, but to give the scientists a bit more of a leg-up, is fraught with danger.
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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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