It's a deeply disturbing additional submission which confirms what (U.N. chief weapons inspector) Hans Blix was saying 10 days ago, |
It's a grisly job to be an executioner and I think executing people is wrong. |
It's a miracle that people survived, |
It's a triumph for ordinary people over militants, |
It's going to be an opportunity for us to look at what preparations we've made and then improve on those if we have to and, perhaps, set up some region-wide APEC response mechanism if that's really called for, |
It's going to be an opportunity for us to look at what preparations we've made, and then improve (on) those if we have to and, perhaps, set up some region-wide, APEC response mechanism, if that's really called for, |
It's not for China to feel that we're ganging up on China or that Australia is suddenly changing its policy on China. |
It's not just a question of knowing who's moving in and out. It's even having a system where people are reporting that they are moving in and out. It's not as sophisticated as it is at Sydney airport, |
It's of some concern to us that the sentence is as short as it is. We're disappointed about that. We'd like to see a longer sentence, |
It's quite possible they would just have been pirates, |
It's very good to see that the vast majority of Iraqi people are embracing the democratic political process in their country, |
Let me make this clear. It is not the job of a military commander to play politics. It is to command troops. |
Look, we've had claims that he was tortured. We've had two American teams investigate those claims and they have come back with nil returns. |
Many people in Australia hold Anwar Ibrahim in very high regard, |
Most of the time critics say we're too close to China, we're not robust enough in criticizing China. We certainly don't have a policy of ... trying to constrain China or working with other countries against Chinese interests or anything like that. |