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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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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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System
Right
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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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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 think that the best things that governments can do for productivity is not whack on new taxes and, if we can get institutions like schools and hospitals functioning better, well that's obviously good for the overall productiveness of our society.
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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 am, as you know, hugely unconvinced by the so-called settled science on climate change.
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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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There will be no surprises and no excuses from a Coalition government, Barrie.
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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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No cuts to health , no cuts to education, no cuts to pensions.
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We are going to be a government of no surprises and no excuses a government which keeps its commitments and a government which is straight and candid with the Australian people and that's what we intend to do.
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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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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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Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor
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I don't think my religious convictions should be held against me.
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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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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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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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There will be no overall increase in the tax burden whatsoever.
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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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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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