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I'm focused on doing the job the treasurer should do.I don't respond to gossip.
Australia would play its role in taking displaced people from the Syrian conflict.
The role of CO2 is not nearly as clear as the climate catastrophists would suggest.
So, my friends, in a week or so the Governor-General will swear in a new government.
Look, good government doesn't look for excuses, good government gets on with the job.
When the world is in trouble, Australia responds. Australia is a good, global citizen.
The only party which is going to increase taxes after the election is the Labor Party.
I think it's time for the Prime Minister to stop making excuses and to start governing.
A midnight knock on the door followed by execution is no way a leader should be treated.
I am, as you know, hugely unconvinced by the so-called settled science on climate change.
My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure
The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.
There will be no surprises, there will be no excuses, we will do what we've said we will do.
My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure.
We've got to get the system right. That's why we've got this root-and-branch reform under way.
And a government that accepts that it will be judged more by its deeds than by its mere words.
I don't think it's a very Christian thing to come in by the back door rather than the front door.
I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.
I do enjoy exercise, not because I am an exercise junkie but because it's terrific stress release.
We are about getting things done. We are not about the blame game. We are not about making excuses.
No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.
If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.
We can't conclusively say whether man-made carbon dioxide emissions are contributing to climate change.
In the era of mobile phones and emails, you're no more out of the loop in China than you are in Sydney.
For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.
Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.
We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration.
The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens.
Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.
We are looking at what more we can do. As well as a strong security response we need a strong humanitarian one.
Whether carbon dioxide is quite the environmental villain that some people make it out to be is not yet proven.
Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it’s not necessarily everyone’s place to come to Australia.
There's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!
We shouldn't be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community.
When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire.
I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.
For small business men and women, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.
I have close family members as well as lots of close friends who are gay. Many of them strongly support gay marriage.
We will be a consultative, collegial government. No surprises, no excuses. That's what you'll get under the Coalition.
The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go.
I am extremely unwilling that we should take upon ourselves to exercise a jurisdiction which the law does not vest in us.
Do we really want to invest $50 billion of hard earned taxpayers money in what is essentially a video entertainment system?
To be sociable, I puffed on a marijuana cigarette, but I didn't inhale...I just hate the idea of drawing smoke into my lungs.
I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked.
I am not being negative, I am simply being factual when I say Kevin Rudd is the best friend the people smugglers have ever had
We are a very like-minded group, the senior members of this government. The outliers are not very far away from the mainstream.
Abortion is the easy way out. It’s hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations.
Prima facie, every estate, whether given by will or otherwise, is supposed to be beneficial to the party to whom it is so given.
You try turning up in America without documents, without a visa, without a passport; you'll be treated as very, very much illegal.
It was a positive sign that the conversation took place, it's a sign of the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia.