Robert Manne
Robert Manne
Robert Michael Manneis an Emeritus Professor of politics and Vice-Chancellor's Fellow at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. He is a leading Australian public intellectual...
missing tibet
We don't have to go to a glacier in Tibet to find a missing airman, ... We've got some of them in our own backyard.
buried ice mystery snow
It is a mystery that has been buried and only now that the ice and snow have melted, can we unravel that mystery.
against eventually seem shut soldier
Kind of against all odds, they soldier onward. Eventually it will come up to put up or shut up time, but they do seem to be making progress.
sort toughest winners
You have short-term winners and losers, and that's the toughest thing to sort out.
answer family happened questions understand whatever
We want to be able to understand what happened to him fully, ... And we also want to be able to answer whatever questions the family may have about 'exactly what happened to my son, my brother.'
lucky somebody stayed thousands walked
We're just lucky that somebody walked by there when there was a thaw and his body was exposed. If not, he could have stayed there for hundreds of thousands of years.
confident successful together
I feel pretty confident it's all going to come together for a successful identification,
care word
Care is a very different word from love,
balance fine finger judge keeping light people pressure pushing
There's a fine balance between keeping the pressure on and pushing people over the edge. The judge has to have a light finger on the trigger.
company flew paid people risk
They've got a back-to-the-future approach. The company historically did very well when it was risk averse. They flew for the military, flew for wholesalers, flew for people who paid up front.
cost operating performed revenue
They performed pretty well on the operating line, ... It was on revenue growth, not on cost cutting.
With what's been accomplished to date, they could be out by this fall.
bankruptcy hanging hardly pressure
The pressure is hardly off. It's just as much pressure as it has been, it's just without the albatross of bankruptcy hanging over it.
bought cannot caring children love mother parental partiality passionate
Children need most not trained, expert, professional care, but the passionate partiality of parental love. That love is not reproducible, just as to be a mother is not reproducible. Caring is. Mothering cannot be bought or sold, or reproduced by the marketplace. But caring can.