“I have often pondered the psychology of people who seem uncomfortable with the society that has formed them. There is much about Australia I would like to change, but not its fundamentals.”

— Tony Abbott

Source: Leader of the Opposition (2009-2015), Battlelines book, (2013), p. 6.

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