Tim Costello Quotations

More support is needed for meeting basic human needs such as health, water and education.

While impoverished nations may need funding to help their police or their bureaucrats - it will do little if we don't also help desperately poor people feed or educate their children or stop them dying from preventable diseases or dirty drinking water.

This has been another exciting and competitively balanced year in all three of the East's upper-division leagues. That balance brought forth a very large slate of worthy candidates, and unfortunately only 15 of them could make it to the watch list. There is a lot of hockey yet to be played, and our committee members will be observing these nominees closely the rest of the way.

I think now we have a very unique opportunity, thanks to the election result, thanks to such a big vote for the Greens, to say you know what, we have to face it. Otherwise this generation will be robbing the next generation of their future, and that's immoral and unethical.

I have always felt that the great lottery of life is unfair. The fact is that I was thrown up on the stage of life called Australia. You don't choose where you are thrown on to this stage. So universal health, universal education, of course plenty of food and clean water.

Ultimately we have got to co-operate for our common destiny.

We've confused the cost of lifestyle with the cost of living. We've lost our perspective.