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I'm not running for canonisation.

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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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We just can’t stop people from being homeless if that’s their choice.
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Do we really want to invest $50 billion of hard earned taxpayers money in what is essentially a video entertainment system?
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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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Our police, our hard-working police, that our extraordinarily committed and dedicated military personnel, I'm really pleased that they are getting a good paid parental leave scheme.
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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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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 a model of positivity compared to the kinds of vitriol, the kinds of destructive criticisms that Labor members of parliament have been making of each other.
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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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People who have put money aside on the basis of a certain set of rules shouldn't have that money raided just because government has got a problem.
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More excuses for more failures.
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We will act to build a better world. We always have, we always will. We will act to lend a helping hand, not just here but wherever we humanly can.
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The choice made by families not to immunize their children is not supported by public policy or medical research nor should such action be supported by taxpayers in the form of child care payments.
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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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I think anything which improves services is in principle a good thing.
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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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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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There's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!
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Australia would play its role in taking displaced people from the Syrian conflict.
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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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