Best practice politics
Overheard at a Melbourne polling booth on the day of the federal election: 1st ALPer: "You don't want to vote for the Liberals. They lie all the time." Heckler: "What about the Labor Party?" 2nd ALPer: "We don't lie as much."
Consider and reject
"Mr [Graeme] Samuel [president of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry] said business supported the Government's planned $8 billion in spending cuts and urged the Government to also consider savings by cutting business concessions." -- AAP report in the April 8 Newcastle Herald.
Unappreciated
"[ACTU secretary Bill Kelty] is ... annoyed that the Coalition gives him no credit for having kept wage demands in check and helping to create a favourable climate for company profits." -- Sydney Morning Herald, April 12.
Optimist
"Why are they worried about this one? A bomb never hits twice in the same place." -- Andrei Shatsman, a shift supervisor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant.
Questions, questions
"Now my children and grandchildren ask me, `What the hell did you do that for? You covered the whole of our country with shit.'" -- Ukrainian scientist Dr Eduard Pazukhin, who formerly built nuclear weapons, now working with Chernobyl's exploded reactor.
On Earth, for example
"Do you think we are that crazy to put a nuclear plant in a dangerous place?" -- Indonesian Ambassador Wiryono Sastrohandoyo, trying to calm fears about his government's nuclear plans.
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