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 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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The reason he's in custody is because his visa has been cancelled. The reason his visa has been cancelled is because he's received an adverse security assessment,
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I don't know that there is a role to look at departmental matters.
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Mr Habib remains of interest in a security context because of his former associations and activities. Because of this interest, relevant agencies will undertake appropriate measures.
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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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but that does not mean that the statements in it are anything more than rhetoric.
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She had very little knowledge of what was happening around the village she was supposed to be living in, didn't know the currency used,
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My concern about families is that I'm not yet satisfied that there are arrangements which would meet my principle objective, which is to have people available for processing and for removal if they're not refugees.
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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.