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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. "
Tony Abbott
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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. "
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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. "
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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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" I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning. "
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" Climate change is crap. "
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" There are no factions in the Liberal Party. "
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" To move past fear is a cliche. "
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" I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society. "
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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. "
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" I do enjoy exercise, not because I am an exercise junkie but because it's terrific stress release. "
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" I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists. "
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" You cannot win an election without a fight. "
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" My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure. "
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Pressure
" 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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Like
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" Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy. "
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Going
" If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth. "
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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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" Once people come to Australia, they join the team. "
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Australia
Come
" If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia. "
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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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You
" 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. "
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New
" For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family. "
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Small
" I want to see an end to sovereign risk questions over Australia. "
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Want
Risk
" 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 don't think my religious convictions should be held against me. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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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