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	Philip Ruddock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Philip Maxwell Ruddock (born March 12, 1943), Australian politician, is the Attorney-General of Australia in the Coalition Government of Australian Prime Minister John Howard.
		Ruddock was a member of the Opposition Shadow Ministry from 1983 to 1985 and from 1989 to 1996.
		Ruddock is the longest serving member of the House of Representatives or the Father of the House.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Philip_Ruddock (620 words)

	Lateline - 23/05/2005: Ruddock tight-lipped on Raus compensation bid
		PHILIP RUDDOCK: Well, I'm speaking about the matter from first principle, and when people make claims, the conduct of all of the parties can be considered in relation to those matters, and as I say, that's an issue of first principle.
		PHILIP RUDDOCK: Well, it has certainly been the case that at different points in time, under the provision of the law when it was constructed differently, certain decisions were made, and I guess people are using that to try and form a judgment as to what might happen if certain facts were established.
		PHILIP RUDDOCK: What I accept is that if those advocating for the defendant sought to conduct their trial through the media in Australia, those matters would first be the subject of very critical comment, and those that followed might also be seen in a critical light.
	www.abc.net.au /lateline/content/2005/s1375259.htm (2128 words)

	Interview with Philip Ruddock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Philip Ruddock: I made the point that there is a separation of powers, and it is important that judges recognise where their responsibilities lie.
		Philip Ruddock: The Labor Party essentially ensured that they were delayed by requiring that they go to committee for examination, and we were not able to get them through before the Parliament was dissolved, and I will want to bring them back as quickly as possible, and I hope we get cooperation.
		Philip Ruddock: No, the Pentagon reviewed - there is an authorised officer who deals with the composition of the military commission, and because the defence counsel challenged the membership of some of those who are serving on the commission, the authorised authority has said, “Well look, because of those challenges, we will take three out”.
	seven.com.au /sundaysunrise/politics_041024_ruddock (1865 words)

	Sunday Sunrise transcript
		Philip Ruddock: No, but I think what we are able to say is that we are being tested all the time by groups of people.
		Philip Ruddock: Part of the difficulty I have in relation to these matters is I am aware of the inquiries that are being undertaken and they can't afford to be compromised by any running commentary from me in relation to them.
		Philip Ruddock: Because the people who are involved in the inquiries in relation to Brigitte are the senior officers of ASIO and they would be party to advising government in relation to any changes that might be required.
	seven.com.au /sundaysunrise/politics/18301 (1847 words)

	Lateline - 02/11/2005: Ruddock reticent over new terrorist threat information
		PHILIP RUDDOCK: No, I think the conclusion I would draw is that there was a specific intelligence that suggested that our law ought to be amended and we've responded quickly in relation to that.
		PHILIP RUDDOCK: One of the things I would say, and I've said it before - we deal with threats and they can come from many sources and I have no intention of offering comment that's going to suggest that a particular part of our community out to be identified with any of these matters.
		PHILIP RUDDOCK: Well, we receive a briefing and the briefing canvasses the matters about which the agencies have been making their enquiries and that is in the form of documentation.
	www.abc.net.au /lateline/content/2005/s1496513.htm (938 words)

	Insight - TARGET AUSTRALIA
		PHILIP RUDDOCK: Well, we looked at the possibility that Australians might be held in a situation of hostage-taking in Iraq - we've seen it with others - and we put in place contingency arrangements were that to occur and there are a range of steps that are to be taken.
		PHILIP RUDDOCK: I think you have to be very careful that you don't allow yourselves to be painted as a reason for some of the steps that are taken that are quite inhumane, inappropriate and, in many cases, beyond comprehension.
		PHILIP RUDDOCK: I just make the point that in relation to the war against terror in which we are engaged, the Government has had a very proactive approach to dealing with and protecting Australia's interests.
	www.sbs.com.au /insight/trans.php3?transid=673 (6741 words)

	CNN.com - Australia a 'role model' for immigration - May 16, 2001
		Ruddock said the new points test for skilled migrants, which was introduced in Australia in July 1999, had changed the demographics of people applying to enter the country.
		Ruddock said Australia had 12,000 places per year for humanitarian refugees, a scheme that was "more generous on a per capita basis than anywhere else bar Canada".
		Ruddock said that the unrest was caused primarily by illegal immigrants who realized that their applications were going to be unsuccessful and believed that by rioting they would put pressure on the government to change its mind.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/05/16/aust.immigration (624 words)

	Ruddockspeak: Ruddock's spin theatre in his own words
		PHILIP Ruddock was applauded in the Coalition partyroom yesterday for his attack on outspoken judges, only hours after the Immigration Minister expressed his qualified regret to the Federal Court.
		PHILIP RUDDOCK: No, situations in which there was an enormous amount of pressure on the Navy as recorded now in a detailed chronology that is available, and what you have is a situation in which one officer recalls being told very clearly that a child had been thrown overboard.
		Mr Ruddock says it was a difficult situation where those on the vessel threatened to throw themselves and their children overboard in an attempt to achieve the outcome of staying in Australia.
	www.safecom.org.au /ruddockspeak.htm (8046 words)

	American Australian Association \| Media Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Philip Ruddock was sworn-in as Australian Attorney-General on 7 October 2003 in a ceremony at Government House in Canberra.
		Philip Ruddock was first elected to the House of Representatives as Member for Parramatta at a by-election on 22 September 1973.
		Mr Ruddock succeeded the retiring Member for Berowra, Dr Harry Edwards, on 13 March 1993 and was re-elected in March 1996, and appointed Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs in the first Howard Ministry.
	www.americanaustralian.org /Services/storyprint.php?storyId=2060&type=story (303 words)

	Interview: Philip Ruddock
		PHILIP RUDDOCK: Well, I mean he's in a different position, I think, to me. And in a position to know what is appropriate to be said.
		PHILIP RUDDOCK: Well, we would — we would regret that, if it were to be the case, because they've assured us at all times that they have evidence to bring charges, and in Hicks' case, unlike Habib, they had in fact brought charges.
		PHILIP RUDDOCK: Well, I mean, in relation to the rule of law, it's established — the common law, by the High Court of Australia.
	sunday.ninemsn.com.au /sunday/political_transcripts/article_1742.asp (2591 words)

	Philip Ruddock, Immigration Minister
		RUDDOCK: Well, people who are involved in the actual bringing of people to Australia and those who were involved in the reception of people in Australia are presently before the courts, with charges involving people smuggling.
		RUDDOCK: Because they have an expectation they're going to be able to sponsor family members immediately, that they can leave Australia on travel documents issued by Australia and they have an expectation of the higher level of support that we offer to refugees.
		RUDDOCK: The point that I make is that I am a Minister of the Crown, I have to behave lawfully, I cannot act outside our framework of law in relation to removing people from Australia and when you come down to the question of removal...
	sunday.ninemsn.com.au /sunday/political_transcripts/transcript_400.asp (2101 words)

	Its A Matter Of Opinion » Blog Archive » “….. it’s inimical with your commitment to ...
		PHILIP RUDDOCK: No. I’m saying it’s a natural consequence of the fact that you launch legal proceedings That they take time and when you launch the proceedings, those are decisions that are in your hands and the outcome is something that you have to live with.
		PHILIP RUDDOCK: Well, the Justice Department has been involved in assessing the evidence in relation to these matters and forming a view as to the appropriateness of the charges and formed a view it was appropriate to bring them in the particular instance and I certainly wanted to test those matters.
		PHILIP RUDDOCK: I think you asked the right question, Tony, because I looked at the measures that were included in the Patriot Act and primarily they go to issues in relation to surveillance of phone calls and the like.
	www.observationdeck.org /weblogs?p=891 (2803 words)

	Jihad Watch: Australia Police Charge Student Over Terror Training (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said the court was told the man, who arrived in Australia from Pakistan in 1998, trained with Lashkar-e-Taiba for two months in early 2003.
		Ruddock declined to comment on whether the two cases were linked or to give further details with the matter now before the courts.
		Ruddock said the man now before the courts attended high school in Sydney after arriving in Australia and was currently studying medicine at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
	www.jihadwatch.org /archives/2004/04/001571print.html (503 words)

	Harold Hark: Philip Ruddock: Evil Incarnate
		Ruddock insists he did not know of this "donation", claiming, in the tradition of criminals generally and this government in particular, that the Illiberal Party's fund-raising code required party lackeys to look after donations without informing their bosses.
		He seems to voluntarily intervene only to insure that children remain incarcerated under Gulag conditions, that families remain separated in different countries, with the promise of reunion to be granted only if they take a few dollars and return to the countries from which they fled under threat of death.
		Will Philip Ruddock ever have the right or the nerve to claim that he acted in good faith when his peculiar form of child abuse is finally recognised as such?
	members.optusnet.com.au /thesquiz/s8.030603.2.htm (1465 words)

	Philip Ruddock Interviewed by John McNamara, 23 October 2001
		RUDDOCK: The pull factor will I think discourage people from coming but it's not going to operate immediately because what will happen, having addressed that pull factor, is that people will hear the outcomes are likely to be less positive.
		RUDDOCK: Well I mean we go to quite extraordinary lengths when we're in touch with the vessels to ensure that they are in fact sea worthy, but you know, I mean the issue of, of these unsatisfactory vessels travelling in the open seas is always there.
		RUDDOCK: Well, look, I mean John, this, this idea that we should have a desperation test to find out who is a refugee seems strange to me. You see, I mean, if, if resettlement of refugees who had a need for being accommodated because they're in an unsafe situation because their lives are at risk.
	sievx.com /articles/disaster/20011023RuddockInterview-McNamara.html (1345 words)

	25 August 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Philip Ruddock, Minister for Immigration with the Australian Federal Government.
		Philip Ruddock: What is wrong is that we expect people to obey the conditions of their visas.
		Philip Ruddock explains that there has been very significant fraud and misuse of marriage visas – without mentioning any specific country.
	www.romclub.org.au /~romclub/visitorsENG.htm (1147 words)

	New evidence of brutality inside Australia's refugee camps
		Minister Ruddock has repeatedly defended ACM and the conditions in the camps on the explicit grounds that refugees must be deterred from trying to enter the country without permission.
		Ruddock has further sought to whitewash the situation by setting up his own investigation, which is confined to examining detention centre reporting processes.
		Under such pressure, Ruddock has indicated that women and children may be transferred to residential accommodation sometime in the New Year while they await the outcomes of their applications for refugee status.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/dec2000/ref-d20.shtml (1734 words)

	The Official Unofficial Philip Ruddock Web Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Philip Ruddock becomes the supreme ruler of the most powerful tyrannical regime the world has ever witnessed.
		Ruddock's moment of opportunity comes as a boat load of asylum seekers try to settle in his country.
		Ruddock, enjoying a surge in popularity, not seen since Pauline Hanson wandered the political landscape, rises in power to become Prime Minister.
	www.zip.com.au /~rocket/unofficial/ruddock.htm (319 words)

	HINCH.net - The Official Derryn Hinch Website
		Ruddock and Reith and Howard bluffed their way through the “children overboard” scandal.
		Ruddock says that the relationship that may or not have existed with his daughter was “totally irrelevant”.
		And three days before an alleged spy is expelled he was to have sat down to chew the fat and eat the Christmas turkey with the Ruddocks in their Pennant Hills home.
	www.hinch.net /says_archive05/Feb05/18-2-05.htm (284 words)

	New Matilda
		Ruddock, who often grinningly told me his relationship with Howard was 'a correct one', was a true spiritual son of Malcolm Fraser, who despite being a sometimes divisive prime minister, always had unimpeachable progressive credentials on racial issues and led the international effort to destroy apartheid.
		Ruddock's transformation from paragon of small-l liberal decency to iron man of the party’s hard right has been about acceptance, about winning the approbation of his leader.
		Ruddock has been in parliament thirty two years and yet, for the first twenty two years, he was never a player.
	www.newmatilda.com /home/articledetail.asp?ArticleID=459 (2389 words)

	Philip Ruddock Interviewed by Howard Sattler, 23 October 2001
		RUDDOCK: I am told it was off West Java and a number of people had got off the vessel because they recognised the vulnerability of being on it and refused to be taken any further.
		RUDDOCK: No, they're part of a unit that's been set up especially to locate groups of people, and very often they do mount operations which bring about the abandonment of particular departures and there have been a large number of incidents where this has happened.
		RUDDOCK: The people who are responsible, Howard, in relation to this are the smugglers who put people on boats and the people themselves had to take some personal responsibility when they're prepared to put themselves in the hands of smugglers.
	sievx.com /articles/disaster/20011023RuddockInterview-Sattler.html (1099 words)

	Australian Government Attorneys General's Department - 31 August 2005 - Transcript - Today Show CH9 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		PHILIP RUDDOCK: No. He was obviously very disappointed, and I think appreciated that there were supportive calls there for him.
		PHILIP RUDDOCK: I have a great deal of personal confidence in the Prime Minister and the job that he’s done, and I have a great deal of admiration for the ability that Peter Costello has.
		PHILIP RUDDOCK: We do have a law, and we looked at it in the context of the organisation Hizb ut-Tahir, which has been banned in parts of Central Asia and Eastern Europe, as well as Germany, and the United Kingdom Government has flagged that it intends to do the same thing.
	www.ema.gov.au /agd/WWW/MinisterRuddockHome.nsf/Page/Interview_Transcripts_2005_Transcripts_31_August_2005_-_Transcript_-_Today_Show_CH9 (807 words)

	Philip Ruddock: minister for racism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ruddock helped lead the government's refusal to admit that the stolen generations exist, claiming that they cannot be called generations unless every Aboriginal child was affected.
		It was Ruddock who went to the United Nations committee on the elimination of all forms of racial oppression to defend the Northern Territory's racist mandatory sentencing laws.
		Ruddock's attacks on asylum seekers are a recognition of this and an attempt to stymie it.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/2001/433/433p10.htm (1917 words)

	Australian Attorney General Philip Ruddock : The spy and minister's daughter
		AN Israeli diplomat thrown out of Australia because he was suspected of being a spy befriended Attorney-General Philip Ruddock's daughter and was due to spend Christmas dinner with the Ruddocks just three days before he was expelled.
		One of those was Mr Ruddock's 26-year-old daughter Caitlin, an accountancy lecturer at NSW University.
		A spokeswoman for Mr Ruddock said that the family had a policy of never commenting on the "personal life or acquaintances" of their two daughters.
	expage.com /ruddock1 (368 words)

	Behind the moves on Howard's board - OpinionWebDiaryArchive2003 - www.smh.com.au
		Ruddock has carried the burden of Howard's most damaging wedge - the Tampa, the Pacific Solution, the removal where possible of all boat people's legal rights and the systematic dehumanisation of boat people.
		Answer for Ruddock: Philip Ruddock as Attorney-General gives him a less stressful workload and the chance to further his aim of demonising the Courts and breaking down the rule of law in immigration policy.
		Ruddock will use his popularity with many Australians and his inimitable style of sounding reasonable while crucifying his targets and extinguishing their rights to convince the public to ignore those who insist that legal rights are better than Ruddock's word and Government "discretion".
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/09/29/1064807856206.html (1233 words)

	New Matilda
		But Attorney General Philip Ruddock says he may still override the states if he doesn't think their model is 'in the national interest'.
		Meanwhile, Ruddock has indicated he is prepared to concede on this point if the definition of 'small' is changed to incorporate companies with an operating revenue of less than $10 million, and with fewer than fifty employees.
		Both Ruddock and the BCA argue that corporations rarely sue for defamation, and that this proves they are not abusing the law.
	www.newmatilda.com /home/articledetailmagazine.asp?ArticleID=769&CategoryID=72 (1188 words)

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