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"The suppository of all wisdom": Australia's gaffe-prone Tony Abbott - in his own words

The just-replaced prime minister has dropped quite a few clangers over the years.

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Sep 15th 2015, 6:15 PM

Poll: The Australian PM's Paddy's Day message seems a little patronising ... What do you think?

“Indeed, it’s been said of us that the English made the laws, the Scots made the money, and the Irish made the songs.”

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Mar 12th 2015, 10:08 PM

Australian PM says sorry for sex line wink

Tony Abbott was filmed winking at an interviewer, as a caller to a phone-in show told him she had taken up work with a sex line to make ends meet.

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May 22nd 2014, 1:15 PM