darling you’ll be ok: more terrible things tony abbott has said!

‘Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it’s not necessarily everyone’s place to come to Australia.’

‘The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother’s convenience.’

‘Climate change is absolute crap’

on homosexuality: ‘I’d probably … I feel a bit threatened’

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

on indigenous employment: ‘There may not be a great job for them 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’

on rights at work: ‘If we’re honest, most of us would accept that a bad boss is a little bit like a bad father or a bad husband … you find that he tends to do more good than harm. He might be a bad boss but at least he’s employing someone while he is in fact a boss.’

‘I think there does need to be give and take on both sides, and this idea that sex is kind of a woman’s right to absolutely withhold, just as the idea that sex is a man’s right to demand I think they are both they both need to be moderated, so to speak’

‘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’