27 Quotes by Peter Beattie

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

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.

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 getting directly to the rest of the world then (Cape York) would be the best place for it. But the difficulty is in start-up costs and energy costs. But let's just see what we can get.

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

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.

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

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

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

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