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A government that says what it means, and means what it says.

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Tony Abbott
Age: 66
Born: 1957
Born: November 4
Politician
Prime Minister Of Australia
Anthony John Abbott
Anthony John Tony Abbott
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I try to treat people as people and not put them in pigeonholes.
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If people are going to do things which have certain consequences that they would rather avoid, they should do whatever they need to avoid the consequences.
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The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.
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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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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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If you don't want to work weekends, don't.
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Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy.
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Australia would play its role in taking displaced people from the Syrian conflict.
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We shouldn't be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community.
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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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I instinctively try to protect people from filth.
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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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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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So, my friends, in a week or so the Governor-General will swear in a new government.
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The role of CO2 is not nearly as clear as the climate catastrophists would suggest.
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Part of my role, I suppose, is to run government business in the House of Representatives, and try to ensure that people know exactly what's going on in the Chamber is an important part of that.
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I think we've produced a stronger prohibition on real racism, while maintaining freedom of speech in ordinary public discussion. So I'm very comfortable with where we're at. We're not dogmatic or impervious to a further argument, that's why we released it as an exposure draft rather than simply releasing it straight into the parliament.
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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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I don't think that my particular religious convictions should be held against me in this campaign any more than the Prime Minister's lack of convictions should be held against her.
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I'm not running for canonisation.
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