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Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted asylum they could have claimed that in any of the countries through which they'd passed.

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I want to see an end to sovereign risk questions over Australia.

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Certainly, my uni days involved some statements that I wouldn't make today.

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I'm not running for canonisation.

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I mean there are many, many people in all sorts of different countries who don't have a great life, who are subject to injustice. Are we obliged to take all of them who come here? I think the answer is 'Not necessarily.'

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I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society.

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I think anything which improves services is in principle a good thing.

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Now if you are condemned to life on welfare, I'm not so sure that being in a bigger welfare village is that much better than being in a smaller welfare village.

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I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.

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Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted.

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Politician

Born: November 4th, 1957

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