I Was A Very Senior Minister In The Howard Government And I Sat Around This Particular Table [in The Prime Ministerial Office] In Many Discussions. The Difference Between Being A Senior Minister And The Prime Minister Is That Ultimately The Buck Does Stop With The Prime Minister And In The End The Prime Minister Has To Make Those Critical Judgement Calls And That's The Big Difference.
There Are Tens, Perhaps Hundreds Of Millions Of People Living In Poverty And Danger Who Might Readily Seek To Enter A Western Country If The Opportunity Is There.
This Is A Government Which Is Proposing To Put At Risk Our Manufacturing Industry, To Penalise Struggling Families, To Make A Tough Situation Worse For Millions Of Households Right Around Australia. And For What? To Make Not A Scrap Of Difference To The Environment Any Time In The Next 1000 Years.
Oppositions Are Not There To Get Legislation Through. Oppositions Are There To Hold The Government To Account.
Why Isn’t The Fact That 100,000 Women Choose To End Their Pregnancies Regarded As A National Tragedy Approaching The Scale, Say, Of Aboriginal Life Expectancy Being 20 Years Less Than That Of The General Community?
In Drawing An Inference Or Conclusion From Facts Proved, Regard Must Always Be Had To The Nature Of The Particular Case, And The Facility That Appears To Be Afforded, Either Of Explanation Or Contradiction. No Person Is To Be Required To Explain Or Contradict, Until Enough Has Been Proved To Warrant A Reasonable And Just Conclusion Against Him, In The Absence Of Explanation Or Contradiction.
