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If consulted by friends about marital dramas, I always encourage the singles to marry, the married to stick together, the neglectful and wayward to renew their loving commitment and the wronged to forgive. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#always #commitment #consulted #dramas #encourage

Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#condemn #divorce #gay #gay marriage #indifferent

It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#australia #better #better place #beyond #election

I have never counted on someone to take care of my emotions for me. ↗

— Mary Mihalic

#centered #emotions #faith #love #motivation

My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#australian #commitment #desire #love #movement

Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#busily #different #entitlement #experimenting #felt

Study after study has demonstrated that people are better off financially, healthier, happier if they are married, and indeed, I repeat, if they are formally married as opposed to simply living together. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#better #better off #demonstrated #financially #formally

The most effective check and balance on government has been an independent press which maintains its credibility by ensuring that its criticism is balanced and based on fact - based indeed on solid journalistic work. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#balanced #based #been #check #credibility

We are already experiencing the symptoms of climate change, especially with a hotter and drier climate in southern Australia - the rush to construct desalination plants is an expensive testament to that. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#australia #change #climate #climate change #construct

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere. ↗

— Glenn Turner

#gets #gives #like #nowhere #rocking