"[Inaudible] parliamentary reform, which you have put out during the campaign, which areas of policy would you be prepared to give ground on, you’ve mentioned the mining tax, the carbon tax. Where would you be prepared to give ground on policy to the independents?

TONY ABBOTT:

Dennis, what I’m trying to indicate today is the spirit with which I would enter into discussions and discussions, I hasten to add, have not started. So I’m taking about the spirit with which I would enter discussions. Now, I’m not going to conduct negotiations in public, in the media "

Because I am going to have to bend over and bare my bottom to the Independants.   Without their support I cannot govern so even if it means making a prostitue out of myself i will do it, but in private

"QUESTION:

On broadband though, only a tenth in your $6.4 billion policy goes to regional areas in the first term. Now this is not in the same category as the Government’s NBN. If you’re going to choose or select one area where you can fiddle with it, wouldn’t that be [inaudible]?

TONY ABBOTT:

I’m not going to pre-empt what might come out of discussions but I just make the point that the Government itself was, I think, very singularly unable to say how quickly its broadband roll out would take place, particularly in regional areas, during the election campaign."

If i need to backflip on broadband in order to get in i will do it.

all of the above bought to you by:

http://www.liberal.org.au/Latest-News/2010/08/24/Tony-Abbott-Press-Conference-Canberra.aspx

LOL

Take those speedos off Tony and lube up!

Abbott is doing the same as Gillard she doesn't go into as much detail she just says I am not discussing what may or may not be open for negotiation???

When is someone going to ask her if teh greens back her how much will the mining tax rise to and when will the carbon tax come in??

No answer to those questions???

L4N

Julia has already mentioned the mining tax is non negotiable.  She has already stated the ETS is on hold until the next election - much the same way as howard went to an election about the GST

The fact is, under the new government, neither party will get anything through without the independants, and next year the green controlled senate

The real question is:  How much is Tony Abbott prepared to prostitute himself to be PM?

Is that the labor party? They have been smacking eveyone for the last couple of years

Ahhh..sorry aussie, all the above postings in " " are direct from Lib HQ....he has answered nothing.     But you just keep sitting on the lib butt plug and scream TONY TONY TONY!!!!!!!!  ROFLMCLAO!