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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They have in their various parliaments, the power to pass laws related to this,
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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.
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It's a decision of theirs that they took on their own and I express my gratitude to them. They're lovely girls.
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If there were gold medals for biting the hand that feeds you, Mark Latham would be standing on top of the dais.
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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.
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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.
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We oppose this legislation in its entirety and we have done consistently since the government first brought this forward.
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We have got to have a better legislation against that legislation and that's what we'll be putting forward,
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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.
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This will bring the Howard government down unless they back off. But they probably won't and (these reforms) will take them out.
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We actually have good resources there, of people with consular skills and logistic skills,
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We'll have a decent debate in the Labor Party on the mines policy.
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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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The problem with this government is it never bothers to go round the region and explain what its doing.