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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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Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.
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A government that understands the limits of power as well as its potential.
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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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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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The role of CO2 is not nearly as clear as the climate catastrophists would suggest.
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Mates help each other they do not tax each other.
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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 just can’t stop people from being homeless if that’s their choice.
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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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No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.
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You cannot win an election without a fight
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I instinctively try to protect people from filth.
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There will be no overall increase in the tax burden whatsoever.
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No country or continent can open its borders to all comers without fundamentally weakening itself and this is the risk that the countries of Europe run through misguided altruism.
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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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I think that the best things that governments can do for productivity is not whack on new taxes and, if we can get institutions like schools and hospitals functioning better, well that's obviously good for the overall productiveness of our society.
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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 I would say to my daughters if they were to ask me this question... it [their virginity] is the greatest gift that you can give someone, the ultimate gift of giving and don't give it to someone lightly, that's what I would say.
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We shouldn't be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community.
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I think there is no doubt that the advent of 24/7 news channels, which are voracious in their demand for constant new content, has accelerated the political process. The rise of social media, in addition to talkback, I think has intensified the political process.
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