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A worrying outcome for business
Heather Ridout, Australian Industry Group, on the new Greens Senators

I don’t deal with fools terribly lightly, and I think under any definition the man’s a fool
One thing Tony Windsor is right about is Barnaby Joyce

[I will] walk backwards to Bourke  if the poof population of North Queensland is any more than 0.001 per cent
And some people are saying Bob Katter represents a progressive voice in parliament

I’d hate to disillusion Bob but I am hearing different in the confessional
Father Michael Taylor, a local Catholic priest in Katter’s electorate, provides a reality check

I mean, if you could imagine 20 or 30 crocodiles up there on the roof, and if all that roof was illumination, and saying that we wouldn’t see anything in this room because of a few croco-roaches up there…are you telling me seriously that the world is going to warm because there’s 400 parts per million of CO2 up there?

Bob Katter puts paid to climate science

We’re all bloody boat people. That’s how we found the place.
Perhaps Bob Hawke should send a memo to Julia Gillard about his brainwave

[It funds] groups such as International Socialists, South African terrorists—the anti-apartheid movement in south Africa—ultra militant feminism, homosexual proselytism and environmentalism gone to crazy lengths
Tony Abbott on why the Sydney Uni SRC should remove compulsory union fees, 1979

With your support money has been given by this SRC to the Kimberly Land Council, the Aboriginal Support Group, the active defense of homosexuals and the Labor Club
Tony Abbott laments SRC spending priorities in 1979

Grim faced, overall-clad, hard, strident, often lustfully embracing in a counterfeit of love
Tony Abbott on the Sydney Uni Women’s Collective, 1979

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