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
people trying filth
I instinctively try to protect people from filth.
climate climate-change crap
Climate change is crap.
australia want borders
If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.
thinking issues important
There are some issues where ministers should come and talk to the prime minister, if the prime minister hasn't already talked to them. Any issue which a minister thinks is going to be profoundly controversial, where we do not have a clear existing position, it is important that there be a conversation between the minister and the prime minister. I think they all understand that and I think it is working very well.
father son dignity
Human society was so constituted, for human nature was so constituted, that the honour and dignity of a father were connected with that of a son; and there was no son who must not be disturbed and disquieted by imputations on his father.
country justice suffering
We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration.
squares
I don't bring religion into the square.
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.
senior philosophical government
The media - and I'm not blaming them - obviously like to seize on the differences between people and, sure, there are some senior members of the government who are in a slightly different philosophical space to mine. But do not underestimate the substantial single-mindedness of this government.
justice fit should
It is fit that justice should be administered with great caution.
lines unlimited
Although our powers are great, they are not unlimited they are bounded by some lines of demarcation.
exercise law vests
I am extremely unwilling that we should take upon ourselves to exercise a jurisdiction which the law does not vest in us.
facts source humans
A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source.
drawing facts absence
In drawing an inference or conclusion from facts proved, regard must always be had to the nature of the particular case, and the facility that appears to be afforded, either of explanation or contradiction. No person is to be required to explain or contradict, until enough has been proved to warrant a reasonable and just conclusion against him, in the absence of explanation or contradiction.