Margo Kingston Quotes

#1. Big money, big Liberal Party politics and big media are trying to get rid of us, of course, by letting Packer take over Fairfax - a media-only company. But we're hanging in there and doing the best job we can for our readers while we can.

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#2. No country can hope to beat the Yanks off with conventional weapons - they've got air, sea and land completely covered. The only recourse is chemical, biological and nuclear weapons (the Yanks used them in Vietnam, and have not ruled out using them in this war).

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#3. If Australia is attacked, it's no longer terrorism. We have invaded Iraq. Iraq, or its new allies, have every right to attack back.

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#4. Rupert Murdoch's vast newspaper empire has waged a relentless pro-war propaganda war before and since the war began.

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#5. As I write, Kim Beazley has the numbers and the game looks over.

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#6. Abbott is a good man to fix up messes and make new policy work ... If he gets it right - and Howard will back him with big bucks - Abbott could clean-up his image and restore his appeal as a future leader.

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#7. I believe I can steal Fairfax's reputation in six months. It is an empty edifice. It has collapsed.

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#8. An American soldier, Saddam in his sights, has a picture of a naked, buxom woman on his dashboard, an obvious affront to Muslim sensibilities.

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#9. Simon Crean has painstakingly built a platform for a potentially devastating assault on Howard's fitness for office.

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#10. The fundamentalist Zionist lobby controls politics and the media in the US and Australia.

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#11. David McKnight gives us the tools to work out where we stand - and what unites rather than divides us - as the struggle to defend our democracy begins in earnest

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#12. On each side of the war against war, hopes soar, hopes dive, hour by hour now. Resignations abound, timetables slip, and the world waits, mesmerised. I'm off to Melbourne to record an arts chat show.

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#13. David Irving is under arrest in Austria for Holocaust denial. Perhaps there is a case for making climate change denial an offence - it is a crime against humanity after all.

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#14. For me, I hope last year was the last when anger, frustration and despair ruled my professional psychology.

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