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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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Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.
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Part of my role, I suppose, is to run government business in the House of Representatives, and try to ensure that people know exactly what's going on in the Chamber is an important part of that.
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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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I've always been very wary of debates involving women.
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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 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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The only party which is going to increase taxes after the election is the Labor Party.
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So, my friends, in a week or so the Governor-General will swear in a new government.
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More excuses for more failures.
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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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Well, Michael, we will be telling the people of Australia in good time before the next election exactly what they can expect from us. No surprises, no excuses. They will be our watch words going into the election and afterwards, should we form a government.
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I am, as you know, hugely unconvinced by the so-called settled science on climate change.
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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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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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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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I think anything which improves services is in principle a good thing.
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We are looking at what more we can do. As well as a strong security response we need a strong humanitarian one.
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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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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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If you don't want to work weekends, don't.
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