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“It really surprises me that some people in this party think we owe Westpac something. Or the ANZ Bank. Or the National.”
“It was we who did the dispossessing. We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases. The alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice. And our failure to imagine these things being done to us.”
“In the end it's the big picture which changes nations and whatever our opponents may say, Australia's changed inexorably for good, for the better.”
“Between 1999 and 2004 there was no investment in Australia, it all went into housing and consumption all borrowed on the current account. When Peter Costello runs around saying, 'Oh we've paid off the debt,' it's like the pea and thimble trick. The Government debt or the massive private debt abroad? It's continuing to grow.”
“Silly what's his name, the Shrek, whoever he was on the television this morning?”
“Never get between a Premier and a bucket of money.”
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