Australian - Politician | November 4, 1957 -
Climate change is crap.
Tony Abbott
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For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.
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I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all else, observe the first maxim of good government: namely, do no avoidable harm.
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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.
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If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth.
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We just can't stop people from being homeless if that's their choice.
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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.
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The problem with politicians getting to know the issues in indigenous townships is that we tend to suffer from what Aboriginal people call the 'seagull syndrome' - we fly in, scratch around and fly out.
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I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked.
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A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut - it's a con.
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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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You cannot win an election without a fight.
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