Tag: sigh

nine38:

Tony Abbott has just been voted into power. It’s disgusting that this man has been elected as the leader of our country. In the words of Australia’s new Prime Minister:

“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”

"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.”

"Just as Al Gore invented the internet: whatever policy she wants, she invented it.”

On Australia’s first female Prime Minister: “[Julia] Gillard won’t lie down and die”

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

“Abortion is the easy way out. It’s hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations.”

"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. Not withstanding all his or her faults, 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 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”

"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.”

“What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it’s going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up.”

"The climate change argument is absolute crap, however the politics are tough for us because 80 per cent of people believe climate change is a real and present danger.”

On climate change: “If you want to put a price on carbon why not just do it with a simple tax.”

On homosexuality: “I’m not someone who wants to see radical change based on the fashion of the moment.”

On homosexuality: “I’d probably … I feel a bit threatened”

“We just can’t stop people from being homeless if that’s their choice.”

"Now, I know that there are some Aboriginal people who aren’t happy with Australia Day. For them it remains Invasion Day. I think a better view is the view of Noel Pearson, who has said that Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country’s British Heritage”

"Here in the Territory, we’ve had a lost generation … kids didn’t go to school, adults didn’t go to work. The ordinary law of the land didn’t apply. [Aboriginal] women cowering in their houses, or in their huts, in fear of what some drunken relative might do.”

"There may not be a great job for [Aboriginal people] 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.”

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

"I think it would be terrific if, as well as having an urban Aboriginal in our Parliament, we had an Aboriginal person from central Australia, an authentic representative of the ancient cultures of central Australia in the Parliament”