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 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 problem with this government is it never bothers to go round the region and explain what its doing.
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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.
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I think he's quite wrong. I think we will win the next election if we're fit for government and we've got the right policies,
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I was defence minister for a few years,
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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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What any country now knows is that they've got a prime minister they can sit on, and that he will, if they've got some part of Australian law that they object to, there's a very good chance that when they sit on the prime minister, they will get a result.
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We don't want to see the Kangaroo taken out of Qantas,
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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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This is an appropriate commitment and a significant one.
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a sad moment for the Australian people, who are overwhelmingly opposed to the sale.