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

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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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If you don't want to work weekends, don't.
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What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it’s going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up.
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There are no factions in the Liberal Party
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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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The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.
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Look, good government doesn't look for excuses, good government gets on with the job.
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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 know politicians are going to be judged on everything they say but sometimes in the heat of discussion you go a little bit further than you would if it was an absolutely calm, considered, prepared, scripted remark. The statements that need to be taken absolutely as gospel truth are those carefully prepared scripted remarks.
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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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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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You try turning up in America without documents, without a visa, without a passport you'll be treated as very, very much illegal.
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Like the Governor-General, when asked what you enjoy most about the job my tendency is to say today, because of the insights you get into our nation and because of the privileged contact you have with so many people.
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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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I am, as you know, hugely unconvinced by the so-called settled science on climate change.
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Every prime minister has a whole series of networks, and there are official formal networks and there are unofficial informal networks. I'm lucky in that I have good official formal networks, starting with my own office, the leadership group, the cabinet and the party room.
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A government that understands the limits of power as well as its potential.
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The smart way to improve broadband is not to junk the existing network but to make the most of it. It’s to let a competitive market deliver the speeds that people need at an affordable price with government improving infrastructure in the areas where market competition won’t deliver it.
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They've changed the salesman but they haven't changed the product.
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The climate change argument is absolute crap
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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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