Kim Beazley
Kim Beazley
Kim Christian Beazley, AC, is a former Australian diplomat and politician who was the Deputy Prime Minister of Australia from 1995 to 1996. He subsequently served as the Leader of the Australian Labor Partyand Leader of the Opposition from 1996 to 2001 and again from 2005 to 2006...
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I am particularly concerned about the risk posed by carriage of very dangerous substances, especially ammonium nitrate. It's becoming clearer that Australian authorities have no way of checking the bona fides of these foreign crews.
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They have in their various parliaments, the power to pass laws related to this,
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I was defence minister for a few years,
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If you actually had a coast guard, you would have effective enforcement in our northern waters. Good fences make good neighbors. As far as maritime issues are concerned, a good fence is a coast guard.
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And it has to be dealt with - albeit within the framework of what sustains Australian values while we do it,
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The folk who come here through this process should go back to Indonesia, and we will negotiate as much by which that will happen, and only we can do it,
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It increases the pressure for Howard to appear.
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I am growing more and more concerned about the potential for foreign ships to operate in Australia's coastal waters without adequate vetting,
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Barnaby always brings two jumpers to the game. He doesn't know which team to support.
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We have seen repeated sightings of people wandering around the airport(s) unauthorized, people that have not gone through the proper security check and the fact that at regional airports there are no security checks at all, ... The government should have acted much earlier.
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The good thing about how the party responded is there's a very considerable sense of unity and purpose about it and determination not to keep being involved in navel gazing, we've done enough of that.
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We don't want to see the Kangaroo taken out of Qantas,
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We'll have a decent debate in the Labor Party on the mines policy.
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The prime minister is not telling the truth about this because this has got nothing to do with anything good for the Australian economy,