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I try to treat people as people and not put them in pigeonholes.

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Tony Abbott
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: November 4
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Prime Minister Of Australia
Anthony John Abbott
Anthony John Tony Abbott
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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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Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy.
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Western civilisation came to this country in 1788 and I'm proud of that...
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A government that says what it means, and means what it says.
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We are looking at what more we can do. As well as a strong security response we need a strong humanitarian one.
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It is a very heavy responsibility [to be a prime-minister] to make, but someone has to make it for our country and I am thrilled and honoured to have that opportunity and that responsibility.
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The the relationship between the prime minister and the monarch is very much a personal one and when it comes to the constitution of the Order of Australia, which is headed by the monarch, this is governed by letters patent, which are a matter between the prime minister and the monarch.
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Whether carbon dioxide is quite the environmental villain that some people make it out to be is not yet proven.
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There will be no surprises and no excuses from a Coalition government, Barrie.
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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 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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We are going to be a government of no surprises and no excuses a government which keeps its commitments and a government which is straight and candid with the Australian people and that's what we intend to do.
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A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known it is an act of reasoning and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source.
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When you are challenging the young, they can come back at you with language of tremendous power and they are no respecters of sacred cows, you know, the young. There's nothing politically correct about the average young Australian when it comes to use of language.
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To be sociable, I puffed on a marijuana cigarette, but I didn't inhale...I just hate the idea of drawing smoke into my lungs.
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The problem with politicians getting to know the issues in indigenous townships is that we tend to suffer from what Aboriginal people call the 'seagull syndrome' - we fly in, scratch around and fly out.
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No cuts to health , no cuts to education, no cuts to pensions.
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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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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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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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