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My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost-of-living pressure. Stopping wasteful and unnecessary spending will keep your interest rates down.
Leader of the Opposition (2009)
There may not be a great job for [aboriginal people] but whatever there is, they just have to do it... And if it's picking up rubbish around the community, it just has to be done.
Leader of the Opposition (2009)
No cuts to education, no cuts to health, no change to pensions, no change to the GST and no cuts to the ABC or SBS
Leader of the Opposition (2009)
It's not goodies versus baddies, it's baddies versus baddies and that's why it's very important that we don't make a very difficult situation worse
Leader of the Opposition (2009)
Thank you for putting up with the invasion
Leader of the Opposition (2009)
I have often said that Australia's foreign policy should have a Jakarta rather than a Geneva focus...
Leader of the Opposition (2009)
I probably feel a bit threatened, as so many people do... look, it is a fact of life and I try to treat people as people, and not put them in pigeonholes.
Leader of the Opposition (2009)
(The pollie pedal charity fundraiser is) an opportunity to stop at lots of little towns along the way where people probably never see or don't very often see a federal member of Parliament.
Leader of the Opposition (2009)
For me, as for every leader of the Liberal Party, encouragement for the family, support for small business and respect for values and institutions that have stood the test of time are at the heart of my public life.
Leader of the Opposition (2009)
Well, that was one boat that did get stopped, wasn't it?
Leader of the Opposition (2009)
There is one fundamental message that we want to go out from this place to every nook and cranny of our country: There should be no new tax collection without an election.
Leader of the Opposition (2009)
"John Howard found a problem and created a solution. Kevin Rudd found a solution and has now created a problem"
Leader of the Opposition (2009)
The Jesuits had helped to instil in me this thought that our calling in life was to be, to use the phrase: 'a man for others'.
Leader of the Opposition (2009)
Victory is within our ready grasp...We are in reach of a famous victory
Leader of the Opposition (2009)
"I guess in the end I'm a bit like Bill Clinton on this matter, who said that he thought [abortion] should be safe, legal and rare. And I underline 'rare'."
Leader of the Opposition (2009)
These people aren’t so much seeking asylum, they’re seeking permanent residency. If they were happy with temporary protection visas, then they might be able to argue better that they were asylum seekers
Leader of the Opposition (2009)
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.
Leader of the Opposition (2009)
You know, I went to a Catholic school as a kid but no one did anything to me. Maybe I wasn't good-looking enough.
Leader of the Opposition (2009)
I mean, the Nazis did terrible evil but they had a sufficient sense of shame to try to hide it
Leader of the Opposition (2009)
Unsurprisingly, the recipients of climate change subsidies and climate change research grants think action is very urgent indeed. As for the general public, of course saving the planet counts – until the bills come in and then the humbug detector is switched on.
Leader of the Opposition (2009)