Philip Ruddock
Philip Ruddock
Philip Maxwell Ruddockis an Australian politician who was a Liberal member of the House of Representatives from 1973 to 2016. First elected in a 1973 by-election, by the time of his retirement, he was the last parliamentary survivor of the Whitlam and Fraser Governments. He was both the Father of the House and the Father of the Parliament from 1998 to his retirement. He is the second longest-serving parliamentarian in the history of the Australian Parliament. Ruddock served continuously in...
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expressed to me their thanks for the degree of access they received and the competency of our officers, who answered all of their questions and dealt with all of the issues they wanted to raise.
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Every time someone who arrives illegally in Australia is granted refugee status, it means that a place is denied to someone often in more dire circumstances,
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But one ought not to be I think blase about these matters, one can't assume that those that are left won't still have some residual capacity to continue,
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we can do our job, and that is to keep them out.
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I don't know that there is a role to look at departmental matters.
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but that does not mean that the statements in it are anything more than rhetoric.
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I would simply say that the issue of how the detention centers themselves are managed is not a matter (in which) treaties or any involvement of the UN is appropriate,
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For only 3 per cent of people to complain that they have been affected by racism when something of the order of 48 per cent -- almost 50 per cent -- come from Asian, North African or Middle Eastern backgrounds, I think it evidences a society that is very accommodating,
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If the parliament is sitting it has to undertake business, that's not a question of picking and choosing,
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If parents are behaving in ways which put the lives of children at risk then we have some responsibility to act,
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In relation to offshore processing, it is in our interests to have people not reach Australia, and (processed) under rules that are not as relaxed as ours became while the courts were supervising judicially the decision making,
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All of the measures that we are seeking to put in place are balanced and appropriate for the circumstances that we face, ... We're not targeting specific members of the community.
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In return we will be sharing with Microsoft information about how the Australian government uses its products.
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The houses are all side-by-side and trial participants will be able to visit one another freely.