Kim Beazley
Kim Beazley
Kim Christian Beazley, AC, is a former Australian diplomat and politician who was the Deputy Prime Minister of Australia from 1995 to 1996. He subsequently served as the Leader of the Australian Labor Partyand Leader of the Opposition from 1996 to 2001 and again from 2005 to 2006...
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The problem with this government is it never bothers to go round the region and explain what its doing.
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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.
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The prime minister is not telling the truth about this because this has got nothing to do with anything good for the Australian economy,
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It increases the pressure for Howard to appear.
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We actually have good resources there, of people with consular skills and logistic skills,
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What we have to be careful about - and I think the premiers do really try very hard to be careful about this - is that we don't as we go down the process of protecting our society from terrorists, loose essential values in our society,
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We'll have a decent debate in the Labor Party on the mines policy.
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They have in their various parliaments, the power to pass laws related to this,
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As I recollect those times and they were a long time ago my office and myself were consistently in touch with people, including members of the Caucus, who were helping him. It was a tragedy but we must reflect on the fact that there is a wife and children left from this and respect their privacy and therefore, beyond what I have just said, I don't intend to continue comment.
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a sad moment for the Australian people, who are overwhelmingly opposed to the sale.
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A deliberate blind eye has been turned here and culpable neglect is what the prime minister here is guilty of. He cannot wash his hands like Pontius Pilate and say it was somebody else's responsibility.
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This is an appropriate commitment and a significant one.
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I was defence minister for a few years,
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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.