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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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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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You cannot win an election without a fight
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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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I think there is no doubt that the advent of 24/7 news channels, which are voracious in their demand for constant new content, has accelerated the political process. The rise of social media, in addition to talkback, I think has intensified the political process.
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The climate change argument is absolute crap
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More excuses for more failures.
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Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.
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It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case.
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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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Look, good government doesn't look for excuses, good government gets on with the job.
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I'm not really managing the work-life balance, I'm just accepting that the work increases and the ordinary life has to decrease when you're the prime minister.
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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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I try to treat people as people and not put them in pigeonholes.
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Mates help each other they do not tax each other.
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There may not be a great job for [Aboriginal people] but whatever there is, they just have to do it, and if it’s picking up rubbish around the community, it just has to be done.
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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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Australia would play its role in taking displaced people from the Syrian conflict.
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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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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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The fact is that I'm interested in getting on with my job of holding the Government to account and I think that the Government should get on with the job of effectively running the country and not making excuses for poor performance, not lowering expectations. Their job is to deliver on their election commitments.
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