Australian - Politician | November 4, 1957 -
I try to treat people as people and not put them in pigeonholes.
Tony Abbott
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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 that people should come to Australia through the front door, not through the back door. If people want a migration outcome, they should go through the migration channels.
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I want to see an end to sovereign risk questions over Australia.
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Certainly, my uni days involved some statements that I wouldn't make today.
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I'm not running for canonisation.
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I mean there are many, many people in all sorts of different countries who don't have a great life, who are subject to injustice. Are we obliged to take all of them who come here? I think the answer is 'Not necessarily.'
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I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society.
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I think anything which improves services is in principle a good thing.
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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.
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I think my wife and my kids are incredibly good to allow me to stay in public life given that they have to cop a whole lot of collateral attention that, being human, they'd rather not get.
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I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.
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