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So, of course, it's disappointing for us here in Warringah, but what matters is what's best for the country, and what's best for the country is not so much who wins or loses Warringah, but who forms, or does not form, a government in Canberra.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
All of us I suppose get carried away but when you make a mistake, fix it, people should be better than that.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I have other calls on my time as prime minister, but I will certainly support a ‘yes’ vote.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
This is not an attempt to build a liberal pluralist market democracy overnight in the Middle East. That's been tried and it didn't magnificently succeed, surely all human beings are entitled to a government which doesn't commit genocide against them.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The only free trade agreement that members opposite have complained about is the free trade agreement with China. What have they got against China?
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Obviously there is a lot of community debate going on, i have views on the subject which are pretty well known and they haven't changed.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The RET represents a bipartisan solution, and we applaud the Coalition and ALP (Australian Labor Party) for achieving that, it's important that the views of all groups are heard, and that any concerns are addressed with fact and science.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
But frankly, this government's absolute fundamental priority ... is to get the most urgent budget measures through and by far the most urgent budget measure is the small business budget boost.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I accept that same-sex marriage is a significant issue, but frankly, this government's absolute fundamental priority ... is to get the most urgent budget measures through and by far the most urgent budget measure is the small business budget boost.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There will be more of this, and it's important in the next couple of years that the relationship beds in because otherwise ... you could quickly find it isn't a self-sustaining relationship.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It’s good that we’re now exchanging information at a very deep level between our various agencies because the threat posed by violent extremism, particularly by the Daesh death cult, is real and it is global.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The only way you can stop the deaths is to stop the people smuggling trade. The only way you can stop the deaths is, in fact, to stop the boats, that's why it is so urgent that the countries of Europe adopt very strong policies that will end the people smuggling trade across the Mediterranean.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We believe that the potential attack was inspired by the Daesh death cult in the Middle East.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We both support freedom of navigation by air and by sea in the South China Sea. We both deplore any unilateral change to the status quo. We both think that disputes should be resolved peacefully and in accordance with international law.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We have both prospered in peace over the last 40 years because of the stability that our region has enjoyed and anything which disturbs that stability is something that we would mutually deplore and mutually work to ensure didn't happen, we both support freedom of navigation by air and by sea in the South China Sea. We both deplore any unilateral change to the status quo. We both think that disputes should be resolved peacefully and in accordance with international law.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I'm in the business of trying to find constructive solutions and we've made our position on the execution of these Australians pretty clear, we think these two people who've been on death row now for a decade have been thoroughly rehabilitated and reformed.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The government's decision has the support of the prime minister of Iraq and it responds to a formal request from the United States to contribute specific Australian Defence Force capabilities to this international coalition.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We are naturally reluctant as a peace-loving people to reach out to far-away conflicts but, as we know, this conflict has been reaching out to us for months now.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's clear that in too many instances, the threshold for action was set too high. And that the only beneficiary of that was the Martin Place murderer himself, we cannot allow bad people to use our good nature against us.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I don't think it would be possible to witness uglier fanaticism than this, monstrous extremism than this, and I regret to say it is now present in our country.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Regrettably there are those out there, some living in our midst, who would do us harm but your government, at every level, will do whatever we humanly can to keep you safe.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This has been a very chastening experience, a very chastening experience, It's not often that something like this happens 16 or 17 months into the life of a government.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It is important to end the uncertainty at the very beginning of the parliamentary sitting week.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They are perfectly entitled to call for this, but the next point to make is that they are asking the party room to vote out the people that the electorate voted in in September 2013, we are not the Labor Party and we are not going to repeat the chaos and the instability of the Labor years.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The prerogative of mercy should be extended to them, australia opposes the death penalty at home and abroad.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This is an unimaginably difficult time for the families of these young men, i spoke with both families today and will ensure the government continues to support them.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The terror threat remains high ... and at this level an attack is likely, we don't know when and how an attack may come, but we do know that there are people with the intent and the capability to carry out further attacks.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
It is a sign that this government wants the economy to be front and centre in the coming year.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
All of our appointments are on merit, as time goes by and the number of women in the parliament increases, I'm confident that there will be more.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
He is a very tough and competent political operator, he's also a very decent human being.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This is a ministry for jobs and families and it is a sign that this government wants the economy to be front and center in the coming year.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
These are trying days for our country, tonight, there will be tears and prayers across our country for these children.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
The news out of Cairns is heartbreaking, all parents would feel a gut-wrenching sadness at what has happened. This is an unspeakable crime.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
All parents would feel a gut-wrenching sadness at what has happened. This is an unspeakable crime. Tonight, there will be tears and prayers across our country for these children.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There's no doubt about that, and this is why we've got to constantly learn the lessons of everything that happens, we've got to be constantly asking ourselves : Is this the best we can do ?
Found on CNN 8 years ago
This was the act of someone who was way beyond any mainstream, any mainstream, and has been rightly, absolutely repudiated by all the communities of Australia, we want to know why Man Haron Monis wasn't being monitored, given Man Haron Monis history of violence, Man Haron Monis history of mental instability, and Man Haron Monis history of infatuation with extremism.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
When you are in a firefight, all sorts of things happen, the important thing for the police in a situation like that is to take care of the terrorist as quickly as possible.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I share the exasperation of the Australian public at what appears to be someone who's been having a lend of us, for many years.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I don't know why he dropped off the watch list in those days, I really don't.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Plainly there are questions to be asked when someone with such a history of infatuation with extremism, violent crime and mental instability should be in possession of a gun license, we have very tough gun laws and I guess we can be pleased that he didn't have a more potent weapon at his disposal. But why did he have a gun license in the first place?
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We particularly need to know how someone with such a long record of violence and such a long record of mental instability was out on bail after his involvement in a particularly horrific crime, and we do need to know how he seemed to have fallen off our security agency's watch list back in about 2009.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We want to know why he wasn't being monitored given his history of violence, his history of mental instability and his history of infatuation with extremism.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
This was the act of someone who was way beyond any mainstream, any mainstream, and has been rightly, absolutely repudiated by all the communities of Australia, we want to know why he wasn't being monitored, given his history of violence, his history of mental instability, and his history of infatuation with extremism.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
The system did not adequately deal with this individual, there's no doubt about that.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
He had a long history of violent crime, infatuation with extremism and mental instability.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This is a very disturbing incident. I can understand the concerns and anxieties of the Australian people.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Australia is an energy super power and energy security is very important to Ukraine, particularly given its current vulnerability to supply.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I've made various comments some time ago but as we've seen things develop over the last few months I think it's fair and reasonable for the government to make a modest, prudent and proportionate commitment to this climate mitigation fund.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Obviously I take responsibility for everything in the end. I mean, the buck stops here.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Tony Abbott's brand is so hard and it's so negative. It makes you wonder whether he was a one-use only brand.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The important thing is for all of us to absolutely reject this death cult.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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