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I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society

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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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Immigrants
Australia
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More excuses for more failures.
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I try to treat people as people and not put them in pigeonholes.
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To move past fear is a cliche.
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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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I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.
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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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We have already provided a strong humanitarian response to the problems in the Middle East and that response will be stronger within coming days.
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