Tony Burke
Tony Burke
Anthony Stephen 'Tony' Burkeis an Australian politician representing the Australian Labor Party. Between 2007 and 2013 Burke served as Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry in the First Rudd Ministry; Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water and Population in the First Gillard Ministry and Minister for Immigration, Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship, Minister for the Arts, and Vice-President of the Executive Council in the Second Rudd Ministry...
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Malcolm Turnbull got a majority in the parliament that he is trying to ignore and lock his own members of parliament into positions that they don't hold, and sometimes into positions that we know he doesn't hold. It's no wonder the public's started turning on him.
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I don't understand when there's excess capacity at mainland detention centers, why there's a need to take these asylum seekers as far away as possible from the best legal teams.
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We're talking about extraordinary amounts of money simply for a public relations exercise.
They can't come after us. There's no way.
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We don't know how many of those people are Australian citizens, we don't know how much longer than three weeks they were detained.
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Jobs should be advertised in Australia before anybody even thinks of handing opportunities overseas.
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If the reports today have any validity, then you've got to say somebody who had the job for Saddam Hussein of chasing dissidents falls on the dangerous side of the equation.
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The claim that the Government made that there were 21 measures in it is wrong. We said we wanted to wait till we saw the bill because we didn't to trust that it would be as they described and it's turned out we were exactly right for saying that. The Government has been entirely deceptive with this. And if their first action is to lie to the Australian people about what was meant to be their centrepiece bill, that really tells you want the [Malcolm] Turnbull Government's going to be about.
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With a close parliament, if the Government wants to get a good outcome for the nation, they can't play a game of lying to the public about what's in their own legislation. They can't do that.
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There are serious budgetry issues that need to be worked through. Playing a game of lying about what's in the content of legislation isn't going to get them anywhere.
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The Government in their own terms, for example, they banked the income for the backpackers' tax. But they had a process attached to the backpackers' tax of review that they wanted to go through. What the Government's saying now with this bill is any process, any detail, any reinvestment that Labor had as part of its package, we're meant to ignore all of that and it's only the cut part of it that we're meant to be committed to.
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The challenge we've got is that the Government does not have a working majority. They don't.
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We're going to prevent politics from abusing the parliament and going off playing politics around the country when they should be here at work.
Malcolm Turnbull, more than anyone, changes month to month on a range of issues.