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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This is a matter in which one needs to deal with Mr Hicks fairly but one shouldn't see unreasonable delay in relation to getting on with the matter,
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We will not succumb to any pressure in relation to people who have no entitlement to be released into the Australian community,
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These events started when people were endeavoring to place pressure on us in relation to those matters,
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The United States government has now advised that it does not intend to bring charges against Mr. Habib,
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The terms of reference have been amended in accordance with Mr Cole's request that he be given until the end of June to deliver his report.
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We need to reduce our reliance on older, less suitable facilities and focus on purpose-designed and built facilities which will enable us to better cater for those remaining in detention,
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It hasn't been influenced by me, my colleagues, or foreign government influence,
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but that does not mean that the statements in it are anything more than rhetoric.
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I don't know that there is a role to look at departmental matters.
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My understanding of the evidence is that some of the product had been actually purchased, others had been ordered, ... The intelligence assessment is that this was an enterprise designed to manufacture a very large quantity of explosives.
Neville Roach has undoubtedly been one of the staunchest advocates of a multicultural Australia,
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Scott Parkin is effectively Australia's first genuine political prisoner
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Security agencies are working closely with their overseas counterparts to try and find further information about it.