Loose cannons

Wednesday, June 28, 1995 - 10:00

Loose cannons

The marketplace

"We have a government which is fumbling and lurching its way through the corridors of business. It does not know how the marketplace works." — NSW Liberal leader Peter Collins, on the state Labor government's failure to provide Westpac with enough "incentives" (i.e. money) to locate a new processing centre in NSW instead of South Australia.

Sending Paul to Disneyland

"Bringing in Mr Keating, or Mr Howard or the republic or Super League or what's happening in Disneyland is a distraction as far as I'm concerned." — Queensland Labor Premier Wayne Goss, politely inviting Paul Keating to stay out of Queensland until after July 15.

Strong

"A strong premier who is about to win an election doesn't need a strong prime minister looking over his shoulder." — A spokesperson for PM Paul Distraction.

Pick your own head of state?

"I thought life was about freedom of choice." — Liberal leader John Howard, referring to the debate over the republic.

Serving their country

"Human samples are of prime importance, and if anybody knows how to do a good job of body snatching, they will be serving their country." — The head of the US Atomic Energy Commission in 1955, on the AEC's "Project Sunshine", which collected corpses from around the world for radiation experiments.

From GLW issue 192