No senior politician can expect to have work-life balance. I'm afraid there are some jobs for which work-life balance inevitably goes out the window. If you want work-life balance you just have to accept that you can't be a senior member of a government, or for that matter a senior member of an opposition.
Tony AbbottWe've got to get the system right. That's why we've got this root-and-branch reform under way.
Tony AbbottThere's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!
Tony AbbottI think that people should come to Australia through the front door, not through the back door. If people want a migration outcome, they should go through the migration channels.
Tony AbbottThis is a government which is proposing to put at risk our manufacturing industry, to penalise struggling families, to make a tough situation worse for millions of households right around Australia. And for what? To make not a scrap of difference to the environment any time in the next 1000 years.
Tony Abbott