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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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Tony Abbott
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: November 4
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Anthony John Abbott
Anthony John Tony Abbott
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