Kim Beazley Government Quotations

The problem with this government is it never bothers to go round the region and explain what its doing.

The prime minister, the foreign minister and the trade minister were the three wise monkeys: they saw no evil, they spoke no evil, they heard no evil but they knew all about it. It's a sorry story of a government in a mode of reckless negligence.

I think he's quite wrong. I think we will win the next election if we're fit for government and we've got the right policies,

We oppose this legislation in its entirety and we have done consistently since the government first brought this forward.

We have seen repeated sightings of people wandering around the airport(s) unauthorized, people that have not gone through the proper security check and the fact that at regional airports there are no security checks at all, ... The government should have acted much earlier.

This will bring the Howard government down unless they back off. But they probably won't and (these reforms) will take them out.

I've seen John Howard's government do some pretty low things over the years, but hiding behind the Melbourne Cup to introduce these shoot-to-kill laws into parliament and pass them through, well that's the lowest of the low.