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Well not quite.
But following the brilliant performance by our Prime Minister and her whitering assessment of Tony's character, we've been inspired to unearth more of Tony Abbott's previous comments, to demonstrate what he really thinks about the questions we'd all like answered.
Let's start.
COMMUNITY BLOG: Thank you for your time Mr Abbott, there's so many things we'd like to ask. Can we start with the suggestions of Mysogony and sexism?
TONY ABBOTT: Nobody respects women more that I do (8/2/10)
CB: However?
TA: For myself, I don’t support “women’s” causes. I support conservative causes (5/9/08)
CB: Homosexuality? How do you feel about that?
TA: I’d probably, I feel a bit threatened … (5/3/10)
CB: Threatened?
TA:Well, there is no doubt that it challenges, if you like, orthodox notions of the right order of things … (3/8/10)
CB: What about women's right to control their own bodies?
TA: 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. Why isn’t the fact that 100,000 women choose to end their pregnancies regarded as a national tragedy approaching the scale, say, of Aboriginal life expectancy being 20 years less than that of the general community? Abortion is the easy way out. It’s hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations. (16/3/04).
CB: Some people have suggested that your efforts to stop RU486, against the medical and scientific advice was driven by your religious ideology. Would a Coaliton government repeat those kind of extraordinary actions?
TA: In the end, the decisions that we make will be based on the national interest, not the medical interest. (9/10/03)
CB: It's clear you don't support abortion, but what about the death penalty, a punishment we haven't seen fit to use since 1967?
TA: I’d always been against the death penalty but … contemplating the enormity of certain sort of crimes I sometimes thought that some crimes were so hideous that if the punishment were to fit, maybe we were left with no alternative but the death penalty. (5/3/10)
CB: What are your thoughts on the Government's 'Schoolkids bonus'?
TA: It has nothing to do with education; it’s just another cash payment.
CB: How is that any different to the baby bonus, for example?
TA: Well, look, ah… they just are (9/5/12)
CB: What about industrial relations?
TA: The next Coalition government … will have to revisit the workplace reforms that gave it so much political grief but that are central to a productive economy.... WorkChoices wasn’t all bad (Battlelines)
CB: If you thought for a moment what it means to be Australian, do you think we have a national dish?
TA: Gee whiz, is it barbecued lamb chops? Is it chips and sauce? (25/1/10)
CB: And our national dress?
TA: Ugg boots, how Aussie is that, hey? (8/7/10)
CB: You often brand those from the other side of politics liars, but seem to be loose with the truth yourself at times... for example the recent pensioner's electricity bill. How do you reconcile that contradiction?
TA: One man’s lie is another man’s judgment call (5/6/07)
CB: That doesn't really address the contradiction.
TA: Well, I’m a politician... and sometimes I choose not to answer questions in quite the way that questioners want (25/1/10)
CB: And finally, what will your strategy be at the next election?
TA: Trying to keep “doctors’ wives,” Howard battlers and Hanson “rednecks” more or less inside the same “broad church” … is no easy task when in government, and is even harder when in opposition, but is essential if the Coalition is to win elections. (Battlelines)
CB: Well, thank you for you time Mr Abbott.
TA: It’s nice to be among friends, even if they are someone else’s friends (17/3/10)
Tony Abbott... mystery man no more.
Still... we'd all like to see Mr Abbott on Q&A to give more Australians the opportunity to ask him what he really thinks.