42 Quotes by Philip Ruddock

Scott Parkin is effectively Australia's first genuine political prisoner

Security agencies are working closely with their overseas counterparts to try and find further information about it.

She had very little knowledge of what was happening around the village she was supposed to be living in, didn't know the currency used,

Mr Habib remains of interest in a security context because of his former associations and activities. Because of this interest, relevant agencies will undertake appropriate measures.

My concern about families is that I'm not yet satisfied that there are arrangements which would meet my principle objective, which is to have people available for processing and for removal if they're not refugees.

My understanding of the evidence is that some of the product had been actually purchased, others had been ordered, ... The intelligence assessment is that this was an enterprise designed to manufacture a very large quantity of explosives.

Neville Roach has undoubtedly been one of the staunchest advocates of a multicultural Australia,

I don't know that there is a role to look at departmental matters.

but that does not mean that the statements in it are anything more than rhetoric.