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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.

Tony Abbott

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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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Australia would play its role in taking displaced people from the Syrian conflict.
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The problem with politicians getting to know the issues in indigenous townships is that we tend to suffer from what Aboriginal people call the 'seagull syndrome' - we fly in, scratch around and fly out.
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I think my wife and my kids are incredibly good to allow me to stay in public life given that they have to cop a whole lot of collateral attention that, being human, they'd rather not get.
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I try to treat people as people and not put them in pigeonholes.
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We are a very like-minded group, the senior members of this government. The outliers are not very far away from the mainstream.
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There will be no overall increase in the tax burden whatsoever.
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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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Mates help each other they do not tax each other.
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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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So, my friends, in a week or so the Governor-General will swear in a new government.
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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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We have already provided a strong humanitarian response to the problems in the Middle East and that response will be stronger within coming days.
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Voluntary paid maternity leave: yes compulsory paid maternity leave: over this Government’s dead body, frankly. It just won’t happen.
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I have close family members as well as lots of close friends who are gay. Many of them strongly support gay marriage.
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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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Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy.
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We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.
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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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