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There's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!

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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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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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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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There will be no surprises and no excuses from a Coalition government, Barrie.
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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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To move past fear is a cliche.
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If you don't want to work weekends, don't.
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I was pointing out the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia and the fact that Australia has been there for Indonesia when Indonesia has been in difficulty.
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I try to treat people as people and not put them in pigeonholes.
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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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Like the Governor-General, when asked what you enjoy most about the job my tendency is to say today, because of the insights you get into our nation and because of the privileged contact you have with so many people.
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We've got to get the system right. That's why we've got this root-and-branch reform under way.
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The the relationship between the prime minister and the monarch is very much a personal one and when it comes to the constitution of the Order of Australia, which is headed by the monarch, this is governed by letters patent, which are a matter between the prime minister and the monarch.
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The climate change argument is absolute crap
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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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I'm focused on doing the job the treasurer should do.I don't respond to gossip.
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No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.
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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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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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They've changed the salesman but they haven't changed the product.
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