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
surprise no-excuses excuse
There will be no surprises, there will be no excuses, we will do what we've said we will do.
order australia letters
The the relationship between the prime minister and the monarch is very much a personal one and when it comes to the constitution of the Order of Australia, which is headed by the monarch, this is governed by letters patent, which are a matter between the prime minister and the monarch.
excuse
More excuses for more failures.
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.
thinking australia listening
I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of Australia.
phones eras email
In the era of mobile phones and emails, you're no more out of the loop in China than you are in Sydney.
burden increase taxes
There will be no overall increase in the tax burden whatsoever.
party election increase
The only party which is going to increase taxes after the election is the Labor Party.
helping mates taxes
Mates help each other; they do not tax each other.
cities noble looks
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
today statements involved
Certainly, my uni days involved some statements that I wouldn't make today
catholic littles uncomfortable
I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked.
issues people suffering
The problem with politicians getting to know the issues in indigenous townships is that we tend to suffer from what Aboriginal people call the 'seagull syndrome' - we fly in, scratch around and fly out.
country opportunity people
There are tens, perhaps hundreds of millions of people living in poverty and danger who might readily seek to enter a Western country if the opportunity is there.