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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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Tony Abbott
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: November 4
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Prime Minister Of Australia
Anthony John Abbott
Anthony John Tony Abbott
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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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Western civilisation came to this country in 1788 and I'm proud of that...
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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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More excuses for more failures.
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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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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 are no factions in the Liberal Party
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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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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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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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Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.
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Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics.
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They've changed the salesman but they haven't changed the product.
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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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We are naturally reluctant as a peace-loving people to reach out to far-away conflicts but, as we know, this conflict has been reaching out to us for months now.
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Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy.
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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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Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor
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I think we've produced a stronger prohibition on real racism, while maintaining freedom of speech in ordinary public discussion. So I'm very comfortable with where we're at. We're not dogmatic or impervious to a further argument, that's why we released it as an exposure draft rather than simply releasing it straight into the parliament.
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