Loose cannons

Corporate advisor

"Maybe it's time for [moderate anti-globalisation] groups ... to go further and suspend large-scale demonstrations, like the one scheduled for Genoa." — Time magazine correspondent Romesh Ratnesar writing in the July 23, 2001, issue.

I'm on your side, really I am

"Such an action would argue powerfully, not just against violence but for the movement's capacity to grow beyond raucous protest." — Ratnesar again.

Broad consensus

"Despite a broad consensus on both sides of politics in favour of free trade and open markets, 60 per cent of respondents to AustraliaSCAN's survey believed that 'globalisation is dangerous and a threat to our way of life'." — Australian Financial Review, July 21-22.

Consultant-speak

"We, as Australians, have gone from being consumers to being people... Within that shift are the seeds of individualism, greater cynicism, and new tribalism which is compassionate yet selfish at the same time." — David Chalke, consultant to Quantum Marketing Research's AustraliaSCAN survey.

From GLW issue 457