January 2012
1 post
“Well that was one boat that did get stopped, wasn’t it,”
– Tony, when asked if the captain from the Costa Concordia could help with Abbott’s immigration policy by a breakfast radio presenter.
You can’t teach this kind of class.
November 2011
1 post
July 2011
2 posts
“was a bit like the Irishman who lost 10 pounds betting on the Grand National and...”
– Oh Tony. Really? An Irish Joke? Bet they loved it … oh wait … no
June 2011
4 posts
“Maybe that’s a comment on the quality of our economists rather than on the...”
– Tony - don’t you remember the rule? don’t hate the player(s), hate the game
(Oh and the study he cited in support? It was declared invalid on procedural grounds, but not before being accused on dishonesty, misleading statistics, selectively discarding results, plagiarism…)
Think again on carbon...
“The mining industry is fighting for its survival”
– Dear Tony,
Mining contributes about 5.6% of Australia’s Gross Domestic Product (which according to the World Bank equates to $51.7b) and employs 129,000 Australians, (about 1.3% of the total labour force)
It made $93.6b profit in the past year, 30% of total nationwide profits.
It will...
“Two wrongs don’t make a white”
– Oh Tony, you’re just making this easy on us now (but okay, we’ll pay it’s a mistake)
Twitter / @Lisa_Wilkinson: It’s true Tony Abbott did …
“I’m not saying that the world will end if a carbon tax comes in, but your cost...”
– That’s called “Inflation” Tony
May 2011
1 post
“I think the Government is drowning on its asylum seeker deal”
– Well… that’s an unfortunate turn of phrase
/via @LatikaMBourke
March 2011
2 posts
“She may not believe in God, the monarchy or marriage but there will be a royal...”
– To quote is @DrunkenMadman “Tony, by those rules *you* can’t visit a science forum”
Abbott questions why PM is going to royal wedding
Class comes easy to Tony →
February 2011
10 posts
“I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even...”
– Tony, taking equality back to the 1930’s.
“…Jesus didn’t say yes to everyone. I mean Jesus knew that there was a place for...”
– … um … author is struggling for any kind of caption here.
“I think there does need to be give and take on both sides, and this idea that...”
– ABC’s Q&A, 19 March 2009
“You know politicians love to make big heroes of themselves by making these...”
– Pretty sure that Tony is phoning in his Christian commitment to helping his brothers these days (cf Luke 13:15-16, Matthew 12:10-12, Acts 2:44-45 and Nehemiah 2:7-9)
“There’s got to be emergency accommodation for people or systems to provide...”
– Tony’s “Tough love” approach to homelessness
“The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively...”
– Tony from the infamous Adelaide University address in 2004
“I think if the Prime Minister wants to make, politically speaking, an honest...”
– Tony, pulling out the sexist dog-whistle for a change about the Prime Minister’s recently announced Carbon Tax
via @Latika Bourke
“Well, sometimes shit happens”
– Tony Abbott responding to US Col Jim Creighton’s claim that “some mistakes during combat”, the mistakes that lead to the death of Lance Corporal Jared MacKinney in August 2010
“So, look, I’m against the NBN and I certainly think that as far as the general...”
– Tony still pushing the “oh the internet is just that thing for video gamering and watching Garfield on Bigpond Movies” angle on the NBN.
Delimiter – NBN: Abbott slams “interactive gambling” waste
1 tag
January 2011
2 posts
“Australia is a country of hugely varying climate extremes, from drought to flood...”
– Dropping a guest appearance like Nicky Minaj on a Kanye West track, Senator the Hon. Eric Abetz (L) from the great state of Tasmania claiming that Noah’s biblical flood was a historical fact
“I think where people have got insurance policies, those policies must be...”
– Tony just making up words
Tony Abbott doorstop - Floods in Queensland - Liberal Party of Australia
December 2010
1 post
“It’s pretty obvious that the main usage for the NBN is going to be...”
– Delimiter – NBN: Abbott rejects “video entertainment system”
August 2010
54 posts
“Certainly in South Australia we won. We have the most votes; we have a two-party...”
– Tony — after the Liberal “victory” in the South Australian elections in March 2010 — the Liberal party won 52% of the 2PP vote, but still lost the election; compare and contrast to his claims that the federally Liberal primary vote makes their claim for government legitimate.
“it was warmer ”at the time of Julius Caesar and Jesus of Nazareth”...”
– Tony — on Climate Change Abbott feels heat on Jesus claim
“Barnaby Joyce is taking on the roll as shadow Finance Minister”
“I’m only too happy to answer questions on these subjects but I am trusting...”
– Tony — “sitting out” the single most important Liberal economic announcement (ABC News)
“they are a legal business and i have no problem taking their money”
– Tony — a former Health Minister, on taking money from Cigarette manufacturers
“Mr Abbott said the phone call from sea would come to him, and it would be his...”
– Tony — on his #BoatPhone Opposition Leader Tony Abbott takes helm on refugees | Herald Sun
“Of course I do Barrie. Of course I appreciate the importance of these things....”
– Tony — comparing the NBN to Nutrigrain Insiders - 15/08/2010
“we should not think of taking time off work to have a baby as something that is...”
– Tony — on the true purpose of half of Australia’s population, to make babies (The Australian)
“I think everyone should have some familiarity with the great texts that are at...”
– Tony — on how all kids must read the bible, whilst at the same time contradicting his own experience “reading the great texts”
“The idea that, hey presto, we’re suddenly going to get 10 times the speed...”
– Tony — reminding he’s not a “tech-head” again
“wireless is getting better all the time, i recently upgraded my modem and...”
– Tony — missing the point on wireless internet technology
“broadband, to me, means downloading an email”
– Tony — on his technical expertise
Tony — on not reading the Intergovernmental Panel...
TONY JONES: I hear what you're saying about the earth having been hotter in different periods in its entire global history, but let me ask you this. Have you read the science that we're talking about here - for example, have you read the IPCC's report?
TONY ABBOTT: No, I don't claim to have immersed myself deeply in all of these documents. I'm a politician. I have to rely on briefings - I have to rely on what I pick up through the secondary sources.
Tony — not understanding what "Peak Speed" might...
KERRY O'BRIEN: Well, are you sure about - can you really give that guarantee when you don't seem to know what peak speed is. I'll tell you what it is. It's quite an easy concept to understand. Peak speed is the best speed at which you can download material, usually when people are least likely to be using the internet, like at midnight. At other times, when there is congestion on the net, the speed will be much lower than that. So how can you say as a matter of course that the speeds your system will deliver will actually, more often than not, be much more than 12?
TONY ABBOTT: Well, Kerry, I take your point: that if you want to drag me into a technical discussion here, I'm not gonna be very successful at it because I…
“We, I suppose, had a premonition, if you like, Kerry, that the home insulation...”
– Tony — on governing by premonition from his train-wreck 7.30 Report appearance, August 10th
“That’s bullshit”
– Tony — responding the (then shadow) Health Minister Nicola Roxen after she told him that he should be able to control getting to the National Press Club on time. Tony turned up 35 minutes late to the only health debate of the 2007 election.
“Again, if you are going to get me into a technical argument, I’m going to...”
– Tony — struggling with the basics of the most fundamental aspects of 21st Century life
“adolescent silliness”
– Tony — again on George Christensen’s editing of a university paper in 1998. He then went on to claim that Christensen is “a good bloke and I stand by him”
“If there’s colourful stuff from George Christensen’s uni days, I...”
– Tony — backing backing the ‘racist, homophobic’ George Christensen. Christensen was quoted as saying “women are bloody stupid” and making jokes about a man dying of AIDS
“I think the worst you could say about it is that it’s a bit like school,...”
– Tony — on how Nauru is just like boarding school (Courier Mail)
“Tony Abbott is Australia’s George Bush, a likeable dope who knows what he...”
– Writer Nick Parsons in an email sent to fellow writer Bob Ellis quoted today on ABC’s The Drum Unleashed
“Scones are my favourite snack!”
– Tony, on the campaign trail in August 2010
“John Howard is a pretty good political mentor. Not perfect, but a pretty good...”
– Tony — on his mentor John Howard (The 7.30 Report - ABC)
“Tony always saw himself as something of a romantic figure, a Don Quixote ready...”
– Tony — from Peter Costello’s memoirs The 7.30 Report - ABC
Got a good Tony Abbott quote he doesn't want to... →
“You’d need to be pretty handicapped not to appreciate this Government is...”
– A cameo by former Liberal leader Andrew Peacock