15 Quotes by Nick Minchin

so I hope we can build a consensus around what is a very liberal position on this issue, and that we can give Australians the right that New Zealanders have.

No one is above the law and I will also say that deliberate leaking of confidential government information should not and can not be tolerated,

I stress that the assumptions reflected in the budget papers do not reflect any government decisions and do not reflect in any way a target price,

These appointments are important in terms of progressing sale preparations so the government can be in a position, if it so decides in early 2006, to proceed with a possible sale later in the year,

I do think it is passing strange that in 2005 the Federal Cabinet of this country is responsible for appointing the board of Australia's largest commercial enterprise,

If the question is do people (in the Liberal Party) believe that human beings are the main cause of the planet warming, then I'd say a majority don't accept that position

I have said consistently in my 16-and-a-half years in the parliament, I have always supported the party room's decision and the party room is the ultimate authority on these matters. I don't expect that to change.

It is absolutely outrageous that a spin doctor for Labor's NBN Co is being paid $450,000 per annum by Australian taxpayers to promote a company that generates no revenue, has no customers and provides no services to anybody

I do remain optimistic that one day the world will realise that carbon dioxide is more of a friend than an enemy to the earth's flora and fauna, and I do seriously believe that, given the extraordinary complexity of the natural forces controlling our climate, which have done so for millions of years, the only sensible policy response to the natural process of climate change is prudent and cost-effective adaptation.