I think all senior politicians tend to be rather more subtle then the commentators would have it. It is a natural tendency for human beings to try to classify. We all have this classification urge - so and so is such and such, that person is in that camp - but look, most sophisticated people defy stereotype.
Tony AbbottDo we really want to invest $50 billion of hard earned taxpayers money in what is essentially a video entertainment system?
Tony AbbottIt's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case.
Tony AbbottWhether carbon dioxide is quite the environmental villain that some people make it out to be is not yet proven.
Tony Abbott