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
running government cities
In Australia’s biggest cities, public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still hideous drain on the public purse. Part of the problem is inefficient, overmanned, union-dominated government run train and bus systems. Mostly though, …there just aren’t enough people wanting to go from a particular place to a particular destination at a particular time to justify any vehicle larger than a car, and cars need roads
running
I'm not running for canonisation.
running country europe
No country or continent can open its borders to all comers without fundamentally weakening itself and this is the risk that the countries of Europe run through misguided altruism.
running government want
I want to run a government, Barnaby wants to be part of a government, which is characterized by the motto if you like, no surprises, no excuses. That will be the motto of an incoming Coalition government. No surprises, no excuses.
running government people
Part of my role, I suppose, is to run government business in the House of Representatives, and try to ensure that people know exactly what's going on in the Chamber is an important part of that.
running country jobs
The fact is that I'm interested in getting on with my job of holding the Government to account and I think that the Government should get on with the job of effectively running the country and not making excuses for poor performance, not lowering expectations. Their job is to deliver on their election commitments.
attitude last players prove year
We have a lot of experienced players back, ... Our attitude is that we want to go out and prove last year was a fluke. We are out to prove we are a lot better than 1-9.
absence best effective ensuring infected
The best way of ensuring that you don't get infected with something like this, in the absence of an effective vaccine, would be isolation,
people
Once people come to Australia, they join the team.
people truth
The truth is I try to take people as I find them.
almost cease period suspect travel
If there is a pandemic, international travel will almost cease I suspect for a significant period of time,
simple two australia
The measure in the budget in relation to parental leave pay is based on a simple proposition. Most women across Australia have access to one scheme funded by the taxpayer. Some women have access to two schemes and that's great.
senior thinking people
I think all senior politicians tend to be rather more subtle then the commentators would have it. It is a natural tendency for human beings to try to classify. We all have this classification urge - so and so is such and such, that person is in that camp - but look, most sophisticated people defy stereotype.
government limits excuse
A government that understands the limits of power as well as its potential.