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" All of the people who are using their BlackBerries or their iPhones, Facebook, all of the people who are sitting in cafes and hotels rooms doing their work, they're all using wireless technology, and we shouldn't assume that the only way of the future is high speed cable. "
Work
Technology
People
" A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut - it's a con. "
Tax Increase
Cut
Con
" 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. "
Thought
Someone
Just
" Certainly, my uni days involved some statements that I wouldn't make today. "
Today
Days
Involved
" Climate change is crap. "
Climate Change
Change
Climate
" 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. "
Faith
I Am
Politics
" For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family. "
Business
Time
Small
" I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society. "
I Am
Immigrant
Am
" I do enjoy exercise, not because I am an exercise junkie but because it's terrific stress release. "
Because
Stress
I Am
" I don't think my religious convictions should be held against me. "
Should
Against
Convictions
" I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked. "
Life
Feel
Uncomfortable
" If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia. "
Somewhere
Border
Australia
" If people are going to do things which have certain consequences that they would rather avoid, they should do whatever they need to avoid the consequences. "
Need
Avoid
Consequences
" If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth. "
Economic
Growth
Improve
" I have close family members as well as lots of close friends who are gay. Many of them strongly support gay marriage. "
Marriage
Gay
Friends
" I instinctively try to protect people from filth. "
Protect
Instinctively
People
" I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists. "
Going
Argument
Get
" 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.' "
Life
Think
People
" I'm not running for canonisation. "
Running
" 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. "
Saying
Possible
People
" 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. "
Conservative
Like
Myself
" I think anything which improves services is in principle a good thing. "
Which
Think
Principle
" 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. "
Think
Leadership
You
" 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. "
Me
Wife
Attention
" I think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there are all sorts of other relationships which should be acknowledged and recognised, but I don't know that they can be recognised as marriage. "
Marriage
Woman
Think
" 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. "
Go
Think
Door
" I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics. "
Nature
Think
Political
" 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. "
Think
Good
New
" I try to treat people as people and not put them in pigeonholes. "
Them
People
Treat
" 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. "
Look
Kind
Living
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