37 Quotes by Kim Beazley

We'll have a decent debate in the Labor Party on the mines policy.

What we have to be careful about - and I think the premiers do really try very hard to be careful about this - is that we don't as we go down the process of protecting our society from terrorists, loose essential values in our society,

We actually have good resources there, of people with consular skills and logistic skills,

We oppose this legislation in its entirety and we have done consistently since the government first brought this forward.

We have got to have a better legislation against that legislation and that's what we'll be putting forward,

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.

This will bring the Howard government down unless they back off. But they probably won't and (these reforms) will take them out.

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.

What any country now knows is that they've got a prime minister they can sit on, and that he will, if they've got some part of Australian law that they object to, there's a very good chance that when they sit on the prime minister, they will get a result.