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You can trust me to deliver a stronger economy and a safer community.
– Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The fundamental thing that we have done today is ensure that we don't just have a ship build in Australia, we have a fleet build in Australia.
– Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I don't know how accurate that will be but I dare say it will give us some more evidence and it might enable us to further refine the search area, it might.
– Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I presume that if this wreckage does turn out to be from a Boeing 777 that the analysts will do their best ... to try to work out exactly where it came from, i don't know how accurate that will be but I dare say it will give us some more evidence and it might enable us to further refine the search area, it might.
– Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We are confident that it was weaponry that came across the border from Russia, fired and then shortly thereafter -- once it was realized what had happened -- it went back into Russia.
– Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
Found on CNN 9 years ago
He knew that the place where MH17 came to rest was sacred and that a piece of it should come back to Australia, it was a humane and decent thing for him to know and do. It was a contrast to the savagery that brought down the plane.
– Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The best thing that the Clean Energy Finance Corporation can do is invest in new and emerging technologies, the things that might not otherwise get finance, that's why we've got this draft direction there.
– Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We've got to maintain freedom of navigation of the seas and in the air.
– Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I understand that the official misspoke and that the U.S. does not have any plans to base those aircraft in Australia.
– Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Like every generation since, we are here on Gallipoli, because we believe that the Anzacs represented Australians at our best, it’s the perseverance of those who scaled the cliffs under a rain of fire. It’s the compassion of the nurses who attended to the thousands of wounded.
– Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I have a very simple message for those who might be thinking of going overseas to join these terrorist groups: 'Don't,' they are death cults... They are not about religion, they are just about death and it's just as likely to be your death as anyone else's death.
– Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The choice made by families not to immunize their children is not supported by public policy or medical research nor should such action be supported by taxpayers in the form of child care payments.
– Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I've certainly put in a request because the government and the people of Indonesia need to know that this is important to us.
– Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott addressed Bilardi's alleged suicide attack in comments to the press Thursday. This is a horrific situation -- an absolutely horrific situation -- and it shows the lure of this death cult to impressionable youngsters, it's very, very important that we do everything we can to try to safeguard our young people against the lure of this shocking alien and extreme ideology.
– Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
Found on CNN 9 years ago
It shows the lure, the lure of this death cult to impressionable youngsters and it's very, very important that we do everything we can to try to safeguard our young people against the lure of this shocking, alien and extreme ideology.
– Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I think there are millions of Australians who feel sick to their stomachs about what's likely to happen to these two men who committed a terrible crime, a terrible crime.
– Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There were some suggestions earlier that perhaps at least some people in the Indonesian systems were having second thoughts but I'm afraid those signals seem to be dissipating.
– Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We don't want to add needlessly to the burdens of business but we do want to ensure that consumers get the information that they need and the public is protected. So we will do it in the most business-friendly way.
– Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I don't want to raise hope that might turn out to be dashed, i want to ensure that as far as is humanly possible, I am speaking out for Australians and for Australian values, but I also have to respect and defend Australia's friendships.
– Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It was a positive sign that the conversation took place, it's a sign of the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia.
– Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Plainly, this monster should not have been in our community, he shouldn't have been allowed into the country. He shouldn't have been out on bail. He shouldn’t have been with a gun and he shouldn’t have become radicalized.
– Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I'm not in the business of apologizing for the actions that Australian governments take to protect our country. Not now, not ever.
– Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We did what was needed. Let's not forget ... he was up to no good on his own admission.
– Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I was pointing out the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia and the fact that Australia has been there for Indonesia when Indonesia has been in difficulty.
– Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
What we are asking of Indonesia is what Indonesia asks of other countries when its citizens are on death row, and if it's right for Indonesia to ask and expect some kind of clemency, it's surely right for us to ask and expect some kind of clemency.
– Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Well, what we understand is that there are still legal options available to these two Australians and their legal teams and we certainly appreciate that the Indonesian government doesn't normally go ahead with executions of this type, while there are legal options still available and that's what we're saying to the Indonesian government.
– Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We will be finding ways to make our displeasure felt, millions of Australians are feeling sickened by what might be about to happen in Indonesia.
– Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We do want foreign investment but it's got to be the right investment, the right investment that serves our purposes. It needs to be transparent.
– Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This is not saying that we don't want foreign investment, we do want foreign investment but it's got to be the right investment, the right investment that serves our purposes. It needs to be transparent.
– Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The Liberal Party has dealt with the spill motion and now this matter is behind us, we think that when you elect a government, when you elect a prime minister, you deserve to keep that government and that prime minister until you have a chance to change your mind.
– Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The tragedy of these times is that there are people, even in a society such as ours, who wish to do us harm, we are not immune to the politically motivated violence which has for so long stalked other countries.
– Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
Found on CNN 10 years ago
People have gone about their business and in the aftermath of the end of the siege last night, people have responded with typical Australian decency and generosity.
– Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
Found on CNN 10 years ago
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