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I am not being negative, I am simply being factual when I say Kevin Rudd is the best friend the people smugglers have ever had

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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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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 fact is that I'm interested in getting on with my job of holding the Government to account and I think that the Government should get on with the job of effectively running the country and not making excuses for poor performance, not lowering expectations. Their job is to deliver on their election commitments.
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Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics.
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More excuses for more failures.
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I'm not running for canonisation.
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Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy.
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If you don't want to work weekends, don't.
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I've always been very wary of debates involving women.
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They've changed the salesman but they haven't changed the product.
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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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