I'm sorry she feels that way, I really am, |
I've seen John Howard's government do some pretty low things over the years, but hiding behind the Melbourne Cup to introduce these shoot-to-kill laws into parliament and pass them through, well that's the lowest of the low. |
If there were gold medals for biting the hand that feeds you, Mark Latham would be standing on top of the dais. |
If you actually had a coast guard, you would have effective enforcement in our northern waters. Good fences make good neighbors. As far as maritime issues are concerned, a good fence is a coast guard. |
It increases the pressure for Howard to appear. |
It's a decision of theirs that they took on their own and I express my gratitude to them. They're lovely girls. |
It's repositioning, ... It's keeping a sense of proportion in America's engagements. You're not going to let the United States get bogged down in a disproportionate engagement of its forces in Iraq. In both the context of the global war on terror, and its other global commitments, the U.S. has more fish to fry than Iraq. And no matter what it says, it can only have a limited effect on Iraqi political outcomes. Ultimately, Iraqis will have to do the deals. |
Our reform legacy by then had not produced a substantial rise in wages and job opportunities. People saw the hard side of reform but not the gains. Many ... traditional Labor supporters carried the brunt of the change and sheeted home the blame to him. |
Politics calls for robust debate and criticism, but this should never descend to personal and demeaning slurs. |
The folk who come here through this process should go back to Indonesia, and we will negotiate as much by which that will happen, and only we can do it, |
The good thing about how the party responded is there's a very considerable sense of unity and purpose about it and determination not to keep being involved in navel gazing, we've done enough of that. |
The prime minister is not telling the truth about this because this has got nothing to do with anything good for the Australian economy, |
The prime minister, the foreign minister and the trade minister were the three wise monkeys: they saw no evil, they spoke no evil, they heard no evil but they knew all about it. It's a sorry story of a government in a mode of reckless negligence. |
The problem with this government is it never bothers to go round the region and explain what its doing. |
The threat of a terrorist attack in Australia is real. |