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The Coalition will end the waste, repay the debt, stop the big new taxes and, above all else, stop the boats. (Tony Abbott)
If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth. View quote
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Climate change is crap. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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There are no factions in the Liberal Party. View quote
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I'm not running for canonisation. View quote
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I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning. View quote
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I have close family members as well as lots of close friends who are gay. Many of them strongly support gay marriage. View quote
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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. View quote
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The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go. (Tony Abbott)
Now if you are condemned to life on welfare, I'm not so sure that being in a bigger welfare village is that much better than being in a smaller welfare village. View quote
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I try to treat people as people and not put them in pigeonholes. View quote
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To move past fear is a cliche. View quote
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I want to see an end to sovereign risk questions over Australia. View quote
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Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted. View quote
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My mum and mad were both very generous, encouraging parents. View quote
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I think anything which improves services is in principle a good thing. View quote
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I'm not saying that people on welfare don't contribute in their own way, but as many as possible should be encouraged to be economically active as well as socially and culturally active. View quote
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We just can't stop people from being homeless if that's their choice. View quote
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I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader. (Tony Abbott)
I see myself as a social conservative, but I think that there are lots of social institutions that produce beneficial reforms, like public hospitals, for instance, and schools. View quote
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Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account. View quote
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I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society. View quote
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I instinctively try to protect people from filth. View quote
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