I'll be accountable to the Australian public at the next election - they expect us to stop the boats and that's what we are doing.


Quoted in "Tony Abbott compares stopping asylum-seeker boats to war", News.com.au, (10 January 2014)


I'll be accountable to the Australian public at the next election - they expect us to stop the boats and that's what we are doing.

I'll be accountable to the Australian public at the next election - they expect us to stop the boats and that's what we are doing.

I'll be accountable to the Australian public at the next election - they expect us to stop the boats and that's what we are doing.

I'll be accountable to the Australian public at the next election - they expect us to stop the boats and that's what we are doing.