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" I'm not running for canonisation. "
Tony Abbott
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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 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 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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" 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. "
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" I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society. "
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" My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure. "
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" I instinctively try to protect people from filth. "
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" Once people come to Australia, they join the team. "
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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 want to see an end to sovereign risk questions over Australia. "
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" You try turning up in America without documents, without a visa, without a passport; you'll be treated as very, very much illegal. "
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" If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth. "
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" The truth is I try to take people as I find them. "
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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'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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" 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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" We just can't stop people from being homeless if that's their choice. "
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" I try to treat people as people and not put them in pigeonholes. "
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