Peter Beattie
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Peter Beattie
Peter Douglas Beattie, ACis an Australian politician who served as the 36th Premier of Queensland from 1998 to 2007 and Leader of the Australian Labor Party in that state from 1996 to 2007. His sweeping victories in the 2001, 2004 and 2006 state elections confirmed him as one of the most electorally successful politicians in Australia...
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We appointed Tony Morris to start and finish a job and that's what I would prefer,
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The plan is to extract 7.5 million metric tons of bauxite every year in order to produce 2.1 million tons of alumina each year from the refinery.
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Development of the mine and construction of stage one of the . . . refinery has the potential to create 700 direct jobs during construction and 350 direct jobs when it is fully operational.
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I told him he probably knows more about money than the bloke in Canberra,
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Everyone in the urban areas is actually paying full cost recovery.
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I wanted some real economic advice from a real Australian, someone in touch with the land, in touch with reality . . . unlike the other Mr Costello.
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The existing laws do provide certain circumstances where shoot-to-kill applies and they have to apply in those circumstances,
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The declaration opens the way for the company to begin an environmental impact statement for the refinery and associated pipelines and present it to my Government for consideration by October 2006,