Mr. Speranza said his organization will begin certifying imams it believes are competent, that is, those "who have a reading of the Koran that is more peaceful, more oriented towards love".
"I now look forward to forming a government that is competent, that is trustworthy and which purposefully and steadfastly and methodically sets about delivering on our commitments to you, the Australian people," Mr. Abbott said.
"I now look forward," Abbott said, "to forming a government that is competent, that is trustworthy... a government that says what it means and means what it says".
"For male candidates it's enough to be seen as competent — voters may like you or not like you but if you're competent that's the bar," she said.
It's got to be that she's competent, that she's ready".
"There's a commitment where you get somebody that you think is competent that can work with you regarding players on your football team and making it happen.
The US Republican campaigner Brett O'Donnell, interviewed on Radio 4, said that voters want to know three things about a party leader: that they are competent, that they share your values and that they are likeable.
There was also the ancillary question of whether Felt was competent to make that decision".
By day, she's a check-out clerk at a high-end grocery store; by night, she's singing Springsteen and Seger with a band that is competent in that just-falls-short way of the eternal lounge act.
She said that he was competent to represent himself, and that the Constitution gives him the right to do so.
