Tony Abbott
Tony Abbott
Anthony John "Tony" Abbottis an Australian politician who was the 28th Prime Minister of Australia, from 18 September 2013 to 15 September 2015. Abbott was leader of the Liberal Party of Australia from 2009 to 2015, and has been a member of parliament for Warringah since 1994...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth26 October 1952
CountryAustralia
helping mates taxes
Mates help each other; they do not tax each other.
men climate made
We can't conclusively say whether man-made carbon dioxide emissions are contributing to climate change.
differences problem bigs
Another big problem with any Australian emissions reduction scheme is that it would not make a material difference to atmospheric carbon concentrations unless the big international polluters had similar schemes.
struggle years differences
This is a government which is proposing to put at risk our manufacturing industry, to penalise struggling families, to make a tough situation worse for millions of households right around Australia. And for what? To make not a scrap of difference to the environment any time in the next 1000 years.
play australia people
Australia would play its role in taking displaced people from the Syrian conflict.
pregnancy years community
Why isn’t the fact that 100,000 women choose to end their pregnancies regarded as a national tragedy approaching the scale, say, of Aboriginal life expectancy being 20 years less than that of the general community?
men thinking numbers
While I think men and women are equal, they are also different and I think it's inevitable and I don't think it's a bad thing at all that we always have, say, more women doing things like physiotherapy and an enormous number of women simply doing housework.
growth economic boost
If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth.
changed products salesman
They've changed the salesman but they haven't changed the product.
jobs gossip should
I'm focused on doing the job the treasurer should do.I don't respond to gossip.
justice fit should
It is fit that justice should be administered with great caution.
country strong men
We have a strong and credible broadband policy because the man who has devised it, the man who will implement it virtually invented the Internet in this country. Thank you so much, Malcolm Turnbull.
christian thinking democracy
I do not regard myself as a Christian politician. I regard myself as a politician who just happens to think religion matters. I would be appalled, absolutely appalled, to think religion drove anyone's politics in a secular democracy like ours.
hard-work politician enough
There's a sense in which politicians can never work hard enough.