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You cannot win an election without a fight

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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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Winning
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I know politicians are going to be judged on everything they say but sometimes in the heat of discussion you go a little bit further than you would if it was an absolutely calm, considered, prepared, scripted remark. The statements that need to be taken absolutely as gospel truth are those carefully prepared scripted remarks.
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You try turning up in America without documents, without a visa, without a passport you'll be treated as very, very much illegal.
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I've always been very wary of debates involving women.
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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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No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.
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I'm focused on doing the job the treasurer should do.I don't respond to gossip.
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There may not be a great job for [Aboriginal people] but whatever there is, they just have to do it, and if it’s picking up rubbish around the community, it just has to be done.
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The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.
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The last thing Australia needs right now is instability and uncertainty.
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What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it’s going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up.
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A government that says what it means, and means what it says.
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It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case.
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I am, as you know, hugely unconvinced by the so-called settled science on climate change.
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Why isn’t the fact that 100,000 women choose to end their pregnancies regarded as a national tragedy approaching the scale, say, of Aboriginal life expectancy being 20 years less than that of the general community?
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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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When the world is in trouble, Australia responds. Australia is a good, global citizen.
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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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Australia would play its role in taking displaced people from the Syrian conflict.
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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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