Peter Beattie
Peter Beattie
Peter Douglas Beattie, ACis an Australian politician who served as the 36th Premier of Queensland from 1998 to 2007 and Leader of the Australian Labor Party in that state from 1996 to 2007. His sweeping victories in the 2001, 2004 and 2006 state elections confirmed him as one of the most electorally successful politicians in Australia...
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The plan is to extract 7.5 million metric tons of bauxite every year in order to produce 2.1 million tons of alumina each year from the refinery.
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I wanted some real economic advice from a real Australian, someone in touch with the land, in touch with reality . . . unlike the other Mr Costello.
We haven't had a cyclone like this for decades, if we've ever had one like it before.
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Frankly, this package is what we needed. It gives people the heart to rebuild.
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One of the major difficulties is that, as the head of a major corporation once said to me, Australia is on the way to Antarctica. But if the mines at Cape York were concerned about getting directly to the rest of the world then (Cape York) would be the best place for it. But the difficulty is in start-up costs and energy costs. But let's just see what we can get.
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There are also certain circumstances in state laws where that applies, particularly if an officer is in risk of his own life or her life. Now, I think those laws are adequate.
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This was the last thing the government wanted. However, it's our job to accept the umpire's decision and find a way through this mess, ... We will finish what we started. We will reform the health system and not only that, we will ensure that the people of Bundaberg will get justice.
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We will finish what we started. We will ensure that the people of Bundaberg will get justice.
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It's our job to accept the umpire's decision and to find a way through this mess.
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Everyone in the urban areas is actually paying full cost recovery.
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I told him he probably knows more about money than the bloke in Canberra,
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The existing laws do provide certain circumstances where shoot-to-kill applies and they have to apply in those circumstances,
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We'll fight to the end, but I don't think we'll win them (the seats),
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The declaration opens the way for the company to begin an environmental impact statement for the refinery and associated pipelines and present it to my Government for consideration by October 2006,