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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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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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A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known it is an act of reasoning and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source.
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They've changed the salesman but they haven't changed the product.
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Look, good government doesn't look for excuses, good government gets on with the job.
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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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What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the economic mainstream if that's their choice.
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I am extremely unwilling that we should take upon ourselves to exercise a jurisdiction which the law does not vest in us.
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The only party which is going to increase taxes after the election is the Labor Party.
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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 try to treat people as people and not put them in pigeonholes.
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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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I've always been very wary of debates involving women.
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We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.
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There are no factions in the Liberal Party
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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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We will be a consultative, collegial government. No surprises, no excuses. That's what you'll get under the Coalition.
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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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I don't think it's a very Christian thing to come in by the back door rather than the front door.
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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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Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted asylum they could have claimed that in any of the countries through which they'd passed.
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