292 Quotes by Tony Abbott

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.

We’ve got to maintain freedom of navigation of the seas and in the air.

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.

I’m getting my exercise at five o’clock in the morning, that’s good. So far I’ve managed to hold on to a bike ride on Saturday or Sunday morning, probably at least two weekends out of three.

In the era of mobile phones and emails, you’re no more out of the loop in China than you are in Sydney.

I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons.

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

While I think men and women are equal, they are also different and I think it’s inevitable and I don’t think it’s a bad thing at all that we always have, say, more women doing things like physiotherapy and an enormous number of women simply doing housework.

Every prime minister has a whole series of networks, and there are official formal networks and there are unofficial informal networks. I’m lucky in that I have good official formal networks, starting with my own office, the leadership group, the cabinet and the party room.