Anthony Pratt
Anthony Pratt
base exploiting good minerals sector
Australia is a resource-rich nation. We have been good at exploiting our minerals base and agricultural sector for exports.
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Accelerated depreciation helps companies bring forward capital-intensive investments by reducing payback time. It's not a hand out. Companies still have to pay the tax, but they simply get to defer it.
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I love Australia. I love the people there; they are fantastic. The business opportunities are endless.
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The money spent up front to avoid damage is a very small amount compared to what is spent to recover from a disaster,
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It's a roll of the dice that Congress is going to have to take care of,
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When Isabel came in, she at one point looked like she was coming in straight at us. About a one-degree difference two days out could have put her right on us.
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We can't base our absolute actions on predictions of what might be, ... We know there's a lot of uncertainty. If we get to the point where we have to nourish this beach every year, we know we'll have to try something different.
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You may have an ethanol vehicle in your driveway and not even know it. It was kind of the dirty little secret of the auto industry.
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You may just be shifting the consumption of energy from the driver to the producer of hydrogen.
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We can bring together rich natural resources, innovative research and development, smart investors, and risk-taking farming and manufacturing entrepreneurs.
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Ultimately, innovation depends on the people with advanced skills who have the ideas, and on the business risk-takers willing to back them.
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We're trying to get the certificate by the 30th.
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There are other areas where Congress can look to control costs and expenses. It's not necessarily quid-pro-quo that the money will come out of other coastal or water projects.
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When we sell paper in Asia, we sell them things such as their corrugator rolls as well as paper.