@columhead = More or less
"The bad reports about Indonesia in the Japanese mass media are more or less spread by agents of the Japanese Communist Party" -- Indonesian Information Ministry "director of journalists" Akhmadsyah Naina, in a statement dated February 17 about coverage of recent "ethnic" unrest in West Kalimantan.
@columhead = Wait till later
"In the lead-up to the Olympics, we simply can't afford to allow anyone to greedily exploit visitors to our city." -- NSW Premier Bob Carr.
@columhead = Corporate knowledge
"Our detective force overall has been decimated by the royal commission [into police corruption] and resignations and retirements that stem from the royal commission. So we've lost a lot of our pool of corporate knowledge and we are relying on younger and less experienced officers ..." -- NSW police commissioner Peter Ryan.
@columhead = Exuberant
"I prefer to call it exuberant democracy." -- Gareth Evans, asked on ABC TV's Four Corners about ALP branch stacking in his electorate of Holt.
@columhead = He's responsible
"I'm a responsible government. Everything I've done shows I'm responsible." -- PNG PM Julius Chan, interviewed on ABC TV's 7.30 Report on February 25 about plans to employ hired assassins against Bougainville leaders.
@columhead = But it does make money
"In the main, Westpac hasn't moved on to a supportive, true team-based, feminine and empowering culture." -- A female former executive of Westpac Banking Corp, explaining why she and five other women execs have resigned in the last six months.
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