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We will be a consultative, collegial government. No surprises, no excuses. That's what you'll get under the Coalition.

Tony Abbott

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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
Government
Collegial
Coalition
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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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If you want to put a price on carbon why not just do it with a simple tax?
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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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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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No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.
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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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Victory is within our ready grasp...We are in reach of a famous victory
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Taxes will always be lower under a Coalition government
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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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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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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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Another big problem with any Australian emissions reduction scheme is that it would not make a material difference to atmospheric carbon concentrations unless the big international polluters had similar schemes.
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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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We've got to get the system right. That's why we've got this root-and-branch reform under way.
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I'm focused on doing the job the treasurer should do.I don't respond to gossip.
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I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of Australia.
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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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Look, good government doesn't look for excuses, good government gets on with the job.
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To move past fear is a cliche.
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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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