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The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.

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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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More excuses for more failures.
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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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Why isn’t the fact that 100,000 women choose to end their pregnancies regarded as a national tragedy approaching the scale, say, of Aboriginal life expectancy being 20 years less than that of the general community?
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Australia will take more refugees from Syria in response to the growing international crisis but it will not increase the total number of asylum seekers it accepts.
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I think anything which improves services is in principle a good thing.
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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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A bit of body contact never hurt anyone.
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All of the people who are using their BlackBerries or their iPhones, Facebook, all of the people who are sitting in cafes and hotels rooms doing their work, they're all using wireless technology, and we shouldn't assume that the only way of the future is high speed cable.
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I've always been very wary of debates involving women.
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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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If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.
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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 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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Victory is within our ready grasp...We are in reach of a famous victory
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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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I was pointing out the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia and the fact that Australia has been there for Indonesia when Indonesia has been in difficulty.
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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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There is one fundamental message that we want to go out from this place to every nook and cranny of our country: There should be no new tax collection without an election.
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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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You cannot win an election without a fight
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