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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 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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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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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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I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society
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I don't think my religious convictions should be held against me.
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There are no factions in the Liberal Party
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The media - and I'm not blaming them - obviously like to seize on the differences between people and, sure, there are some senior members of the government who are in a slightly different philosophical space to mine. But do not underestimate the substantial single-mindedness of this government.
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It is a very heavy responsibility [to be a prime-minister] to make, but someone has to make it for our country and I am thrilled and honoured to have that opportunity and that responsibility.
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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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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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Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.
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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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I want to make it clear that I do not judge or condemn any woman who has had an abortion, but every abortion is a tragedy and up to 100,000 abortions a year is this generation's legacy of unutterable shame.
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Australia would play its role in taking displaced people from the Syrian conflict.
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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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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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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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If you want to put a price on carbon why not just do it with a simple tax?
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If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.
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I think it's time for the Prime Minister to stop making excuses and to start governing.
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