“The Jesuits had helped to instil in me this thought that our calling in life was to be, to use the phrase: 'a man for others.'”

—  Tony Abbott

Interview with Annabel Crabb, Kitchen Cabinet, ABC Television 4 September 2013.
Leader of the Opposition (2009-2015)

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