We’ll fight to the end, but I don’t think we’ll win them (the seats),

One thing we are determined to do is not put the people of Bundaberg and the patients of Dr Patel through the hell that they’ve been through again,

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,

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.

The CMC will have to determine what they will do,

It’s our job to accept the umpire’s decision and to find a way through this mess.

Frankly, this package is what we needed. It gives people the heart to rebuild.

I have no problem with the CMC looking at any politician or any bureaucrat, and they can make that determination.

This is a very difficult case because it is very isolated, and that’s why we have called for expressions of interest from both conforming and non-conforming interests,

One of the major difficulties is that, as the head of a major corporation once said to me, Australia is on the way to Antarctica. But if the mines at Cape York were concerned about...

I told him he probably knows more about money than the bloke in Canberra,

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.

Some have been flattened, roofs have been taken off. The property damage has been immense.

We will finish what we started. We will ensure that the people of Bundaberg will get justice.

The existing laws do provide certain circumstances where shoot-to-kill applies and they have to apply in those circumstances,

We haven’t had a cyclone like this for decades, if we’ve ever had one like it before.

He’ll obviously want to return to the U.S. as soon as possible,

Giving evidence has been painful for them, the government has spent almost $6 million of taxpayers’ money, we’re not going to spend that again.

We appointed Tony Morris to start and finish a job and that’s what I would prefer,

The money might be better off used for things like law-and- order initiatives, schools and hospitals,

A woman is dying and the state government wants to be as sensitive and caring as possible,

[But he did not express confidence in Justice Moynihan allowing such an arrangement to proceed.] The problem for us is that the evidence is contaminated, … That’s the problem. Therefore we’ve got to find another...

Everyone in the urban areas is actually paying full cost recovery.

The whole bloody place is blown apart … This is going to be a long, slow recovery.

The Cadbury Schweppes Australian PGA Championship celebrates its Centenary this year so it’s pleasing to see our top Australian players coming out in force to support the event,

You’ll have irrigators and the usual stupid politics played about this but just think, they’re actually getting preferential treatment,

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.

In many sense the laws that we have agreed to today are draconian laws, but they are necessary laws to protect Australians.

This was the last thing the government wanted. However, it’s our job to accept the umpire’s decision and find a way through this mess, … We will finish what we started. We will reform the...

He has made a mistake, however the punishment does not fit the crime and we believe he needs to be shown mercy,

There are also certain circumstances in state laws where that applies, particularly if an officer is in risk of his own life or her life. Now, I think those laws are adequate.