I'm not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government's state of mind at the time I made that.
From John Howard
I have absolutely no difficulty myself with the playing of God Save the Queen in the presence of Her Majesty.
I thank all of those who weren't born in this country for coming here and making a contribution to Australia. We are the least discriminatory country in the world, in my view.
It's beyond belief that any Australian could be so stupid as to carry drugs into any country in Asia.
It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.
Nobody should underestimate how much the world changed on the 11th of September 2001.
Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China.
This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief.
The goal of Australian foreign policy should be to promote the maximum harmony between the U.S. and China.
I don't share the view that China and the U.S. need to reach some kind of strategic accommodation to carve up the Asia-Pacific region - that is an arrogant proposition and deeply insulting to other countries in the region, including Japan and potentially also India and Indonesia.
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