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This followed a riot between Tamil and Afghan refugees at the centre and highlighted the risk of further violence. Since then another 24 boat-loads of asylum seekers have sailed into Australian waters, adding 1200 to the Government's $400 million offshore processing centre. There are now 239 people living in tents and just 140 spare beds.  

"When it's necessary to extract their carotid artery and snap it between your teeth, then you do," he said. That colourful language is as un-Ruddlike as the attack-dog style he has adopted in recent days. Also un-Ruddlike is the sudden willingness to take risks.

I bleed, frankly, when I see the state of many of our public hospitals   -Tony Abbott

 

Keating, of course, has always had a turn of phrase that could shrivel a landscape, and those who remember him kindly hang upon his judgments as they might hang out for their morning caffe latte at a chic cafe. But Abbott is not looking to capture Keating's old cheer squad. He's in the business of recapturing that mass of voters once known as Howard's battlers who wouldn't piss on Keating if he was on fire, and who Kevin Rudd rebadged as Working Families, winning them over.

The idea of increasing tax would be as foreign to the Liberal Party as voluntary unionism at the local ALP branch   -Peter Costello

 

I AM not a monarchist like Tony Abbott but I am mindful of what the British monarchy brings with it, a magnificently rich story that stretches back over centuries. I am also mindful when I am somewhere like the MCG, which is an old Wurundjeri ceremonial place, that there is a human presence in this land that is thousands of years older than me. I reckon I'd be a fool to ignore either.  

AUSTRALIA is one step closer to exporting uranium to Russia, after the government rejected concerns raised by a Labor-dominated committee into an export agreement reached by John Howard and Vladimir Putin. Eighteen months to the day after the joint standing committee on treaties recommended against ratifying the agreement, the government responded that existing safeguards were strong enough to ensure uranium sales to Russia would not be stolen or used in weaponry. Mr Howard, then prime minister, and M

It appears as if the Rudd Labor government is endorsing the Howard-Putin deal   -David Noonan

 

Proposed amendments to the city's land-use bylaw, including a change to the mandatory parking requirements and the "cash-in-lieu" component, officially went before council on March 8, amid some opposition from some members of council. The intention of the changes is to bring the existing land-use bylaw up-to-date with current financial realities, change how some components are calculated and make it easier for the city to enforce the regulations within the bylaw. While the motion to accept the reports  

Barack Obama now has a much better chance to stamp himself the most popular American president on Australian soil. With only one real contender to beat, Bill Clinton, Obama's rescheduled mid-year journey should give him breathing space that would not have been possible on next week's 'whip-in, whip-out' trip, as Kevin Rudd called it, which was firstly cut back to one day then scrapped altogether because of the President's domestic political concerns. Of the four US leaders to journey down under before  

The federal government is playing down a possible change in political winds as Labor loses its grip in South Australia and Tasmania. They head to the polls on Saturday, with pundits suggesting Labor will struggle to retain government against a rejuvenated opposition in both states. Federal Labor frontbencher Stephen Smith conceded the elections will be difficult.

It's always tough when you're trying to go from term three to term four   -Stephen Smith

 

The federal government is playing down a possible change in political winds as Labor loses its grip in South Australia and Tasmania. They head to the polls on Saturday, with pundits suggesting Labor will struggle to retain government against a rejuvenated opposition in both states. Federal Labor frontbencher Stephen Smith conceded the elections will be difficult.

It's always tough when you're trying to go from term three to term four   -Stephen Smith