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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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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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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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Now if you are condemned to life on welfare, I'm not so sure that being in a bigger welfare village is that much better than being in a smaller welfare village.
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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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Look, good government doesn't look for excuses, good government gets on with the job.
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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 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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A government that says what it means, and means what it says.
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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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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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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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The thing about social media is that it is anonymous, so it can be much more vitriolic and extreme than normal media and yet it is there for everyone to see. It is kind of like electronic graffiti. The political process is accelerated and intense in a way that I don't believe it ever really has been before.
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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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The last thing Australia needs right now is instability and uncertainty.
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The only party which is going to increase taxes after the election is the Labor Party.
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I am, as you know, hugely unconvinced by the so-called settled science on climate change.
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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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The role of CO2 is not nearly as clear as the climate catastrophists would suggest.
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I think I would say to my daughters if they were to ask me this question... it [their virginity] is the greatest gift that you can give someone, the ultimate gift of giving and don't give it to someone lightly, that's what I would say.
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Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.
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