Opposition leader Tony Abbott pledged to wage a political war against the proposed carbon levy.
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Opinions polls have Labor on course for defeat at the hands of Tony Abbott's Liberal Party.
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Opposition leader Tony Abbott said that constitutional recognition for the indigenous peoples was long overdue.
Opposition leader Tony Abbott dismissed the prospect of Palmer splitting the conservative vote.
Footage of Ms Gillard lambasting the opposition's Tony Abbott as a misogynist in parliament last week drew global attention.
As boat arrivals grew, Tony Abbott, leader of the Liberal opposition, called for a return to the Pacific Solution.
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After the interview, polls published in The Australian newspaper showed that she had lost ground to opposition leader Tony Abbott.
Opposition leader Tony Abbott told reporters that it was Labor's "performance which is causing the problems for this government", not media coverage.
Opposition leader Tony Abbott said he would support a wide-ranging commission, but said the investigation should not focus solely on the Catholic Church.
Opinion polls suggest that the opposition, led by Liberal Party leader Tony Abbott, would win an election if the polls were held now.
Polls show Mr Rudd has more public support than Ms Gillard, who looks set to lose the election to the Liberal Party's Tony Abbott.
Tony Abbott, head of Australia's opposition Liberal-National coalition and a contender to lead the country, is a longtime member of Manly's Queenscliff Surf Life Saving Club.
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Opposition leader Tony Abbott accused Ms Gillard, who initially stood by Mr Thomson, of running a "protection racket" for him, says the BBC's Nick Bryant in Sydney.
Its leader, Tony Abbott, rejected Ms Gillard's invitation to join.
Posture and pontificate as they might, Julia Gillard, the prime minister and Labor leader, and Tony Abbott, the right-wing coalition leader, were both rejected for being several hat-sizes too big.
For all the opposition's protestations that it would wreck the economy and saddle consumers with higher energy bills, a recent poll suggested that the measure was less unpopular than Tony Abbott.
That afternoon, Julia Gillard entered the chamber with a handful of sheets of paper on which were printed a few bullet points and a list of sexist quotes from Tony Abbott.
Tony Abbott, on the other hand, exercised rhetorical restraint.
Opinion polls show the opposition Liberal-National coalition led by Tony Abbott well ahead of Labor, which formed a minority government after the last elections in 2010 with the support of independents and the Greens.
The Liberal leader Tony Abbott, a former seminarian whose Catholicism is an important part of his political make-up, recently signalled a new openness to the idea of a conscience vote should he become prime minister.
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Her conservative rival, Tony Abbott, who trained to be a priest and is equally combative but can be impulsive, believes voters will be uneasy at the callous way that Mr Rudd was ambushed by Labor heavyweights.
At the press conference, Mr Rudd appeared to cast doubt on Ms Gillard's ability to defeat opposition leader Tony Abbott in the next election, due in 2013, asking colleagues who was best placed to lead the party to victory.
In Australia, Tony Abbott, the opposition leader, had already vowed to repeal a government policy to introduce a carbon market in 2015 -- which would eventually link to the EU market -- if his Liberal National coalition wins the federal election in September.
Virtually every morning, it seems, image-makers in the gainful employ of opposition leader Tony Abbott and Prime Minister Julia Gillard conjure up some kind of unimaginative photo-opportunity, where their leaders appear brandishing a blow-torch, a spade, a butcher's knife, an on-button or some kind of piece of light industrial machinery.
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