Who: “the bottom line is … it needs to be a buffer from major urban population centers not from hamlets, and the gas companies are…
Who: Unemployment in the mining industry is over 10%, causing “considerable pain and disruption within the professional ranks of the minerals sector”. The Australasian Institute…
Who: “We lost 80 years of prosperity for a whole state because of seven years of approvals which were unfinished.” Andrew Robb, South Australia Minister for…
Who: “If Mr Abbott can justify his wild assertion of a 50 per cent reduction in emissions, he needs to tell us what alternative figures…
Who: “The budget impact of the Coalition’s policies is to improve the budget bottom line by $6 billion and reduce government debt by $16 billion.”…
Who: “Most of all, I fear an Australian economy which through Mr Abbott’s massive cuts would risk triggering the economy into recession with huge hits…
Who: “Almost certainly if people were fleeing the Syrian conflict, they would not be coming to Australia as a country of first asylum. “Any person…
Who: “[CSG mining] can secure the more than 15,000 industrial jobs which are dependent on gas supply as a feedstock, and the further of 2.5…
Who: “[Asylum seekers are] a hot topic here because our traffic is overcrowded…go sit on the M4, people see 50,000 people come in by boat.”…
Who: “It will be the highest aid budget in Australian history.” Bob Carr. The Claims: The 2013-14 aid budget will be the highest in history….
