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“Voluntary paid maternity leave: yes; compulsory paid maternity leave: over this Government’s dead body, frankly. It just won’t happen.”

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And the commitment that I've been giving to the Australian people is that there'll be no surprises and no excuses under a Coalition government.

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To move past fear is a cliche.

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I don't think it's a very Christian thing to come in by the back door rather than the front door,

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Whether carbon dioxide is quite the environmental villain that some people make it out to be is not yet proven.

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I also think that if you want to put a price on carbon, why not just do it with a simple tax? Why not…

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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…

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It is fit that justice should be administered with great caution.

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This is a government which is proposing to put at risk our manufacturing industry, to penalise struggling families, to make a tough situation worse…

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I don't bring religion into the square.

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What will most certainly happen is that there will be very clear and full communication between the government and independents and minor parties. The…

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All of the people who are using their BlackBerries or their iPhones, Facebook, all of the people who are sitting in cafes and hotels…

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I think there is no doubt that the advent of 24/7 news channels, which are voracious in their demand for constant new content, has…

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