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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. "
Tony Abbott
Thought
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Just
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Think
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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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You
Value
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" I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society. "
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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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Uncomfortable
" 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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Kind
Living
" I do enjoy exercise, not because I am an exercise junkie but because it's terrific stress release. "
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" I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning. "
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Would
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" 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. "
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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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Days
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