Campbell Newman Quotes

#1. Well, something is happening in Queensland that is not happening anywhere else.

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#2. What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked.

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#3. The idea that we are not going to look after the Great Barrier Reef, which is just a wonderful tourism resource that it can be just for one example - we are not going to look after it, we won't have tight environment regulation, is frankly just not true.

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#4. Government and politics isn't like a reality TV show. It's not about voting the bad guys out of the house. You know, it's about what do we need to take our country or our state or our city forward? And people, frankly, would be well advised to really get back into understanding politics.

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#5. We should look at the Twitter records of Andrew Fraser. Clearly, the ship was on remote control, because he spent all of his time on Twitter. He used to Twitter in the chamber. He used to Twitter at night. He used to Twitter probably in bed at home, but I am not going to go any further there.

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#6. I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability.

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#7. It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.

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#8. The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.

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