EMM News Explorer: Tony Abbott

[said:]: We're going to fight it. Ask me that question if we come to that situation.

smh 10-FEB-12

[said:]: Obviously, if there was no carbon tax the Point Henry smelter would be in a much better position.

smh 09-FEB-12

[-told]: Look, all the signs are there. It is a very, very restless caucus,

pina 03-FEB-12

[-said]: In the end it's up to the Labor Party to choose which failed leader it wants to take into the election.

pina 03-FEB-12

[said:]: They got the same people to do those costings as did the costings for the school hall program and pink batts program.

TheAustralian 29-JAN-12

[-told]: an error of judgment.

news 28-JAN-12

[said:]: Only the Coalition can provide Australia with a government that concentrates on the concerns of ordinary Australians rather than Labor's internal divisions and dirty tricks.

smh 28-JAN-12

[-said]: I think the indigenous people of Australia can be very proud of the respect in which they are held by every Australian,

upi 27-JAN-12

[said:]: I think the indigenous people of Australia can be very proud of the respect in which they are held by every Australian and, yes, I think a lot has changed since then and I think it probably is time to move on from that.

smh 27-JAN-12

[-added]: I think it probably is time to move on,

bloomberg 27-JAN-12

[-said]: moved on.

AP 27-JAN-12

[said:]: Our country is not perfect but it is the greatest country on earth and every year Australians should strive to make a great country even better.

TheAustralian 26-JAN-12

[said:]: I think Geoffrey Rush is a fine Australian of the year

news_com_au 26-JAN-12

[-said]: I think the indigenous people of Australia can be very proud of the respect in which they are held by every Australian and, yes, I think a lot has changed since then and I think it probably is time to move on from that,

npr 26-JAN-12

[-said earlier]: Look, I can understand why the Tent Embassy was established all those years ago. I think a lot has changed for the better since then,

msnbc 26-JAN-12

[-said]: Yes, I think a lot has changed and I think it's probably time to move on from that,

javno 26-JAN-12

[said:]: The legal home of these vessels, Indonesian flagged, Indonesian crewed, Indonesian ported, is in Indonesia.

smh 23-JAN-12

[replied:]: Let's wait and see what happens when the Parliament comes back in a couple of weeks' time.

news_com_au 22-JAN-12

[-told]: This prime minister just can’t ever be trusted,

bloomberg 22-JAN-12

[replied:]: Let's wait and see what happens when the parliament comes back in a couple of weeks' time.

smh 22-JAN-12

[replied:]: Let's see wait and see what happens when the parliament comes back in a couple of weeks' time.

smh 22-JAN-12

[-said]: She has dudded Andrew Wilkie and all the people who believed in mandatory pre-commitment in the same way she dudded voters over the carbon tax,

nzherald 22-JAN-12

[said:]: This is a test of wills and Australia has lost.

news_com_au 21-JAN-12

[-told]: Once Nauru is up and running, you don't need Malaysia,

pina 19-JAN-12

[-said]: I think it's just the standard duty of government to do what it can for Australians in trouble overseas and obviously these guys fall into that category.

chinadaily 09-JAN-12

[said:]: It's a very difficult delicate dangerous situation. A human life is in the balance and I think the less public commentary the better.

TheAustralian 05-JAN-12

[-also denounced]: plainly won't work because it didn't stop the boats after it had been announced.

upi 23-DEC-11

[-told]: It would be very wrong of the government of Australia to close down for Christmas with this crisis on our borders unresolved and yet all the government can do is ask for the opposition to have a meeting with them,

pina 21-DEC-11

[-said]: My holidays are not as important as sorting this out, but we can only sort it out if the government is prepared to take a position,

pina 21-DEC-11

[wrote:]: If you do have a specific proposal to make and would care to do so in writing, my colleagues and I would be prepared to consider it.

smh 20-DEC-11

[ said]: It’s also pretty clear, by the reaction to the reshuffle, it hasn’t isolated Kevin Rudd, it’s goaded him,

news_com_au 14-DEC-11

[replied:]: Maybe he knows more than he's letting on, but I am not sure that we can take that for granted ...

news_com_au 07-DEC-11

[said:]: It's important that some kids stay at school and go on to university, it's also important that other kids get a good technical education.

smh 28-NOV-11

[said:]: There's no doubt Peter Slipper has been a problem over the years, but he is now Julia Gillard's problem and she may well find that he is an interesting one. Labor moved to counter claims Mr Jenkins was forced out of the Speaker's chair to get the extra votes. Government Whip Joel Fitzgibbon this morning told of how he had dined with Mr Jenkins last night and was convinced he had volunteered to end his four years in the job because of difficulties in the final year of minority Government.

news_com_au 25-NOV-11

[-told]: The speaker has resigned so that the government can shore up its numbers in the parliament,

guardian 24-NOV-11

[said:]: It's not what I make of him.

smh 24-NOV-11

[-told]: The speaker has resigned so that the government can shore up its numbers on the Parliament,

ABCnews 24-NOV-11

[saying:]: the Australian people have been kept in the dark

abc 23-NOV-11

[replied:]: If that's how you think things are done then you should ring your old boss Peter Costello and ask him what he used to do.

smh 22-NOV-11

[-said]: My strong suspicion would be that, while it might well be possible to start significant draw downs of troops within a few years, it would be wrong to think that Australia's involvement with Afghanistan will terminate at that point, or that the West's involvement should terminate at that point,

xinhuanet_en 15-NOV-11

[-said]: I did have some comments [from troops] to the effect that they didn't like it when casualties were politicized, but I also have got very strong feedback that they understand that you can't have casualty-free combat,

xinhuanet_en 15-NOV-11

[pointed out that:]: on the government's own figures, 3 million Australian households would be worse off

smh 08-NOV-11

[-said]: The longer this tax is in place, the worse the consequences for the economy, jobs and families. It will drive up the cost of living, threaten jobs and do nothing for the environment,

guardian 08-NOV-11

[said:]: My office was in regular contact with Qantas.

smh 01-NOV-11

[said:]: The important thing is that the government was warned repeatedly by (Qantas boss) Alan Joyce of the possibility of a grounding should this dispute continue,

smh 01-NOV-11

[said:]: The government should terminate the bargaining period now. People are sitting in airport terminals because the Prime Minister has been sitting on her hands.

smh 30-OCT-11

[ said]: People are sitting in airport terminals because the Prime Minister has been sitting on her hands,

news_com_au 30-OCT-11

[-told]: This is getting worse and worse and I think it is time for the prime minister to get active,

xinhuanet_en 28-OCT-11

[replied:]: I suspect that there would be lots of people who would be letting Mal know ...

smh 27-OCT-11

[replied:]: I suspect that there would be lots of people who would be letting Mal know about it.

smh 27-OCT-11

[said:]: no sensible government leaves really bad law in place

smh 25-OCT-11

[-told]: You have brought humanity and irreverence to what might otherwise be a stuffy institution,

focus 22-OCT-11

[-has said]: She's seen opposition leaders and prime ministers come and go, if she wants to give me a little bit of her wisdom and experience I'll be very grateful to receive it,

pina 21-OCT-11

[replied:]: It is never dull, we play our politics tough in this country and give no quarter, Australian society is always dynamic.

ananova 21-OCT-11

[ said]: It's never dull,

smh 21-OCT-11

[responded that:]: the problem we have now on our borders is all because this Government gave the people smugglers a business model

news_com_au 21-SEP-11

[-told]: The proposals the government put to us last Friday amounted to offshore dumping, not offshore processing,

dailytimesPK 20-SEP-11

[said:]: let's cross that bridge if and when we come to it

smh 19-SEP-11

[-has said]: The new amendments have been provided so our nation can put this issue behind us and move on.

xinhuanet_en 19-SEP-11

[said:]: no on climate change and no on national broadband network

smh 17-SEP-11

[-said]: It is really legislation for offshore dumping,

channelnewsasia 17-SEP-11

[-told]: My difficulty with the government's proposed legislation is that it does strip out the protections that the Howard government thought were necessary,

xinhuanet_en 17-SEP-11

[-said]: My initial response, and that of my senior colleagues, is that the draft legislation strips out protections that the Howard government thought was necessary,

channelnewsasia 17-SEP-11

[-replied]: Everything is up for negotiation except for core Liberal values,

smh 17-SEP-11

[said:]: Malaysia is bad policy. Good policy is Nauru, temporary protection visas and turning boats around, and if the Prime Minister wants to put good policy in place it will get support from the Coalition.

abc 16-SEP-11

[-told]: This is a bad tax, based on a lie, and it should be rejected by this Parliament,

xinhuanet_en 14-SEP-11

[-cited]: This is not just nonsense, this is nonsense on stilts by a government that has no real understanding of the economy of the real world in which most of us live.

xinhuanet_en 14-SEP-11

[-said]: This looks like a naked attempt to intimidate the media,

guardian 13-SEP-11

[-told]: This is a naked attempt to intimidate the media and I say it again: the problems of this government are not the fault of the media; the problems of this government are its own fault,

xinhuanet_en 13-SEP-11

[-said]: Given that Nauru has signed the refugee convention and Malaysia has not why is the Prime Minister persisting with a policy that has been rejected by the High Court and many in her own party and offends every principle that she has ever espoused?

nzherald 13-SEP-11

[declared:]: as far as I'm concerned Malaysia is out

news_com_au 08-SEP-11

[replied:]: George (Brandis) is a lawyer of considerable standing (so) I'm sure we can bandy legal opinions at 20 paces if needs be.

smh 07-SEP-11

[-told]: We don’t want the government to use the High Court’s decision as an excuse to drop offshore processing,

dailytimesPK 05-SEP-11

[-said]: Nauru-specific

smh 05-SEP-11

[-told]: We don't want the government to use the High Court's decision as an excuse to drop offshore processing,

ChinaPost 04-SEP-11

[ said]: They obviously told senior union officials yesterday that they were going to have an inquiry,

news_com_au 30-AUG-11

[said:]: We will expand the role of the market where it's clear that people will be better off.

news_com_au 29-AUG-11

[ said]: Our commitment to reduce the compliance cost of government red tape will boost productivity because enterprises will spend more time doing their job and less time form-filling,

news_com_au 29-AUG-11

[ saying]: stinking hypocrisy

smh 25-AUG-11

[-said]: As long as they are defending the indefensible and justifying the unjustifiable to protect their own position in government, they won't be protecting the interests of the Australian people,

msnbc 24-AUG-11

[-said]: They are defending the indefensible and justifying the unjustifiable to protect their own position in government,

arabtimes 24-AUG-11

[responded:]: This is a prime minister who is so determined to stonewall, who is so determined to ignore issues of integrity in government, that she won't listen to the debate.

news_com_au 24-AUG-11

[-told]: I think it's very hard for someone who can't answer questions about his own credit card to credibly ask questions of the Governor of the Reserve Bank about the nation's credit card,

xinhuanet_en 21-AUG-11

[saying:]: on the face of it, there is a lot that needs to be fully investigated by official bodies

smh 19-AUG-11

[said:]: He is a senator, he has material he is going to present to the Senate committee and that's a perfectly appropriate thing for him to do.

smh 11-AUG-11

[-said yesterday]: The tour is the toughest endurance event in the world,

smh 24-JUL-11

[said:]: When I made that statement in the election campaign I had not the slightest inkling that there would ever be any intention to change this, but obviously when circumstances change, governments do change their opinions.

abc 22-JUL-11

[said:]: I've never been in favour of a carbon tax or an emissions trading scheme.

abc 20-JUL-11

[said:]: And the other crazy thing about this is while our country is trying to reduce emissions by 5 per cent the Chinese are proposing to increase their emissions by 500 per cent.

abc 20-JUL-11

[remarked:]: I'm not Bill Gates here, and I don't claim to be any kind of tech-head

abc 19-JUL-11

[said:]: At no stage was Mr Kitschke asked to give a position on one policy in return for support on another.

smh 18-JUL-11

[-said]: If the Labor Party wants to advertise, the Labor Party should find the money and the Labor Party should spend the money,

peopledaily 17-JUL-11

[said:]: we should have no tax collection without an election

smh 16-JUL-11

[-has said]: We'll be spending $3.5 billion on overseas carbon credits in 2020 … it is an astronomical amount of money … I think it's very hard to take seriously a plan which is proposing to spend that much money overseas,

smh 15-JUL-11

[-says]: It doesn't involve any increase in prices to consumers. It doesn't involve any extra burdens on business or any threat to jobs, and because we will pay for it out of savings it doesn't involve any additional burden on taxpayers,

smh 15-JUL-11

[-said]: money-go-round

news_com_au 12-JUL-11

[said:]: coal is a goner

smh 12-JUL-11

[said:]: No, I'm not being tricky, I am just telling you our position.

abc 11-JUL-11

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