Zitat des Tages von Tony Abbott:
I do enjoy exercise, not because I am an exercise junkie but because it's terrific stress release.
I think that people should come to Australia through the front door, not through the back door. If people want a migration outcome, they should go through the migration channels.
I want to see an end to sovereign risk questions over Australia.
I have close family members as well as lots of close friends who are gay. Many of them strongly support gay marriage.
The smart way to improve broadband is not to junk the existing network but to make the most of it. It's to let a competitive market deliver the speeds that people need at an affordable price with government improving infrastructure in the areas where market competition won't deliver it.
I try to treat people as people and not put them in pigeonholes.
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.
If people are going to do things which have certain consequences that they would rather avoid, they should do whatever they need to avoid the consequences.
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.
What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the economic mainstream if that's their choice.
I'm not saying that people on welfare don't contribute in their own way, but as many as possible should be encouraged to be economically active as well as socially and culturally active.
Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted asylum they could have claimed that in any of the countries through which they'd passed.
To move past fear is a cliche.
Once people come to Australia, they join the team.
Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy.
We just can't stop people from being homeless if that's their choice.
A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut - it's a con.
If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth.
I see myself as a social conservative, but I think that there are lots of social institutions that produce beneficial reforms, like public hospitals, for instance, and schools.
I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.
For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.
I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.
All of the people who are using their BlackBerries or their iPhones, Facebook, all of the people who are sitting in cafes and hotels rooms doing their work, they're all using wireless technology, and we shouldn't assume that the only way of the future is high speed cable.
There are no factions in the Liberal Party.
Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted.
Now if you are condemned to life on welfare, I'm not so sure that being in a bigger welfare village is that much better than being in a smaller welfare village.
Certainly, my uni days involved some statements that I wouldn't make today.
