Peter Beattie Quotations

We appointed Tony Morris to start and finish a job and that's what I would prefer,

The plan is to extract 7.5 million metric tons of bauxite every year in order to produce 2.1 million tons of alumina each year from the refinery.

One of the major difficulties is that, as the head of a major corporation once said to me, Australia is on the way to Antarctica. But if the mines at Cape York were concerned about getting directly to the rest of the world then (Cape York) would be the best place for it. But the difficulty is in start-up costs and energy costs. But let's just see what we can get.

Frankly, this package is what we needed. It gives people the heart to rebuild.

Giving evidence has been painful for them, the government has spent almost $6 million of taxpayers' money, we're not going to spend that again.

He has made a mistake, however the punishment does not fit the crime and we believe he needs to be shown mercy,

He'll obviously want to return to the U.S. as soon as possible,

Some have been flattened, roofs have been taken off. The property damage has been immense.

We haven't had a cyclone like this for decades, if we've ever had one like it before.

We'll fight to the end, but I don't think we'll win them (the seats),

The declaration opens the way for the company to begin an environmental impact statement for the refinery and associated pipelines and present it to my Government for consideration by October 2006,

The existing laws do provide certain circumstances where shoot-to-kill applies and they have to apply in those circumstances,

We will finish what we started. We will ensure that the people of Bundaberg will get justice.

There are also certain circumstances in state laws where that applies, particularly if an officer is in risk of his own life or her life. Now, I think those laws are adequate.

This was the last thing the government wanted. However, it's our job to accept the umpire's decision and find a way through this mess, ... We will finish what we started. We will reform the health system and not only that, we will ensure that the people of Bundaberg will get justice.

I wanted some real economic advice from a real Australian, someone in touch with the land, in touch with reality . . . unlike the other Mr Costello.

The money might be better off used for things like law-and- order initiatives, schools and hospitals,

Development of the mine and construction of stage one of the . . . refinery has the potential to create 700 direct jobs during construction and 350 direct jobs when it is fully operational.

The Cadbury Schweppes Australian PGA Championship celebrates its Centenary this year so it's pleasing to see our top Australian players coming out in force to support the event,

A woman is dying and the state government wants to be as sensitive and caring as possible,

The whole bloody place is blown apart ... This is going to be a long, slow recovery.

I told him he probably knows more about money than the bloke in Canberra,

It's our job to accept the umpire's decision and to find a way through this mess.

Everyone in the urban areas is actually paying full cost recovery.

This is a very difficult case because it is very isolated, and that's why we have called for expressions of interest from both conforming and non-conforming interests,

In many sense the laws that we have agreed to today are draconian laws, but they are necessary laws to protect Australians.

The CMC will have to determine what they will do,