The unfortunate thing is that it brings this in to play at a time when there is regional disagreement with our endorsing of national missiles defenses. |
Then there's what John Howard didn't tell them. That he was planning an all-out attack on their wages, penalty rates and job security. |
These cables place John Howard at the very heart of our very worst national scandal. We believe that they are culpably negligent and we accuse them of turning a blind eye and these cables prove conclusively that that is exactly what they did. |
They have in their various parliaments, the power to pass laws related to this, |
This is a shameless, shameful moment ... as the government bulldozes through the sale of Telstra legislation… And it's a sad moment for the Australian people who are overwhelmingly opposed to the sale… We witnessed both in this chamber and over in the other chamber an almost obscene dancing by our political opponents when this legislation passed through, |
This is an appropriate commitment and a significant one. |
This is John Howard's Australia, |
This is not about choice -- it's about cutting wages. |
This will bring the Howard government down unless they back off. But they probably won't and (these reforms) will take them out. |
Two or three big, all-embracing ideas, presented confidently, could have won him the 1998 election. But there seemed something within Beazley that shied away from big, all-embracing ideas, or even speaking directly. Appropriately, he began presenting himself as the nice guy - Snugglepot with brains. When the actual election campaign began he could have [arisen] in a blaze of illumination as the statesman with answers, presenting a big picture of an Australia that had a place in its own future. He went on talking, but the only transformation was that Snugglepot became Cuddlepie. |
We actually have good resources there, of people with consular skills and logistic skills, |
We don't want to see the Kangaroo taken out of Qantas, |
We have got to have a better legislation against that legislation and that's what we'll be putting forward, |
We have seen repeated sightings of people wandering around the airport(s) unauthorized, people that have not gone through the proper security check and the fact that at regional airports there are no security checks at all, ... The government should have acted much earlier. |
We oppose this legislation in its entirety and we have done consistently since the government first brought this forward. |