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" The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother's convenience. "

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" You cannot win an election without a fight. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family. "

" 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. "

" Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow. "

" I have close family members as well as lots of close friends who are gay. Many of them strongly support gay marriage. "

" I'm not running for canonisation. "

" I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society. "

" Certainly, my uni days involved some statements that I wouldn't make today. "

" 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. "

" My mum and mad were both very generous, encouraging parents. "

" The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go. "

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" A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut - it's a con. "

" There are no factions in the Liberal Party. "

" My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure. "

" I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics. "

" I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning. "

" Climate change is crap. "

" I don't think my religious convictions should be held against me. "

" I want to see an end to sovereign risk questions over Australia. "

" Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We just can't stop people from being homeless if that's their choice. "

" Once people come to Australia, they join the team. "

" 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. "

" I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists. "

" 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. "