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Liz Hayes: Homosexuality? How do you feel about that? Tony Abbott: I’d probably feel a bit threatened.

Interview - 60 minutes, March 2010.

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Leigh Sales: What was “threatened” referring to? Tony Abbott: Well, there is no doubt that it challenges, if you like, orthodox notions of the right order of things.

Lateline - March 2010.

Politics, Patriotism, Respect

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Western civilisation came to this country in 1788 and I’m proud of that.

Four Corners - 15 March 2010.

Politics, Patriotism

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I am always reluctant to join bandwagons. I think there are fashions in science and in the academe, just as there are fashions in so many other things. But look, we should take reasonable precautions against credible threats. I think it is perfectly reasonable to take action against climate change. The problem with the Rudd Government's position is that Australia could end up impoverishing itself through this dramatic ETS, and not do anything for the environment if the rest of the world does not adopt an ETS or something like it.

ABC's Lateline - 2009.

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The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother’s convenience.

Address to the Adelaide University Democratic Club - 17 March 2004.

Feminism, Politics, Religion, Patriotism

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I think there does need to be give and take on both sides, and this idea that sex is kind of a woman’s right to absolutely withhold, just as the idea that sex is a man’s right to demand, I think they both need to be moderated, so to speak.

Q & A - 19 March 2009.

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It’s the responsibility of government to try to put policies in place which over time will allow people to improve their situation. But we can’t abolish poverty because poverty in part is a function of individual behaviour. We can’t stop people drinking; we can’t stop people gambling; we can’t stop people having substance problems; we can’t stop people from making mistakes that cause them to be less well-off than they might otherwise be.

Q & A - 19 March 2009.

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What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it’s going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up, every year.

The Australian - Queanbeyan - 9th FEbruary, 2010.

Politics, Patriotism, Funny

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Mr Speaker, we have a bizarre double standard; a bizarre double standard in this country where someone who kills a pregnant woman’s baby is guilty of murder, but a woman who aborts an unborn baby is simply exercising choice.

In Parliament - 15 Feb 2006.

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Racism used to be offered as the complete explanation for Aboriginal poverty, alienation and early death. Racism hasn’t disappeared. Still, if racism caused poverty, why hasn’t poverty declined as racism diminished.

Paper presented to The Bennelong Society - September 2004.

Politics, Patriotism, Ethics

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