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  Philip Ruddock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Ruddock decided that such documents were not to be released to gay and lesbians individuals intending to marry overseas [2].
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phillip_Ruddock   (664 words)

  
 Ruddock has the hide: extracts from Canberra Times 'Have your say'
The hide of Phillip Ruddock as he spouts his kind and compassionate mantra, must be as thick as a rhino's.
I want Ruddock to explain the on-going imprisonment of Afghans while we are pretending to liberate their country in the name of the war on terror.
For Ruddock to continue with his rot in the face of the Certain Maritime Evidence and other massive amounts of evidence that he is misleading the public has become nothing less than psychotic.
www.safecom.org.au /shepherd.htm   (1297 words)

  
 The Funny side of Phillip Ruddock. : Melbourne Indymedia
Ruddock then became a member of the OZ SS and in 1994 served as an OZ SS corporal at Pauline Hanson's Terminatrix concentration camp.
Ruddock was then assigned to investigate possible "solutions to the Refugee's question." He visited Amnesty in 1937 to discuss the possibility of large scale immigration of stamps to the middle of his stamp collection with Arab leaders.
Ruddock thus became one of the most powerful men in the Forth Reich and would remain head of IV B4 for the remainder of the Reich.
melbourne.indymedia.org /news/2003/07/51595_comment.php   (2037 words)

  
 Phillip Ruddock named Australian A-G   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Ruddock was reportedly chuffed by the appointment, one he had always aspired to, having never let his practising certificate lapse.
The appointment was controversial and received extensive global media coverage, with Ruddock almost as infamous internationally as Pauline Hanson, because of his hard-line approach to asylum seekers.
With a political brief on security, Ruddock grasped numerous opportunities to become the face of Australia’s war against terror, the controversial ASIO Bill and issues of national security.
www.lawyersweekly.com.au /articles/65/0c01c665.asp   (272 words)

  
 Mandaeans in the Media
Phillip Ruddock: Well I don’t think it’s a matter of asserting to any country quite frankly, in relation to rejected asylum seekers, that they’re required to give such an assurance.
Phillip Ruddock: No, and we don’t in relation to people who are returned to the hundreds of other countries that where people have left, sought to make protection claims, have been unsuccessful.
Phillip Ruddock: That’s a matter we’ll be working through with the Iranian government as to the timing of those matters, but the agreement we have with Iran makes it clear that people will have the opportunity to consider the offer and can go home voluntarily, and if they don’t their removal will be facilitated.
www.mandaeanworld.com /mandaean_bibliography_media_2.html   (6231 words)

  
 One Man's Web Refugees   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Ruddock had to overdo it by orders of magnitude.
Ruddock, perhaps you should pay attention to the state of your soul.
Phillip Adams said yesterday “What does it profit a man if he gains the world but loses his immortal soul?” The sad fact is that this is where you seem to be.
www.onemansweb.org /jan/politics/pollie001.htm   (514 words)

  
 Phillip Ruddock is monitoring all Fertiliser Movements in Australia.
Phillip Ruddock is monitoring all Fertiliser Movements in Australia.
Attorney General Ruddock, (there have got to be medals with a title like that)is the Minister responsible for prosecuting breaches of our tough new anti-terror laws.
Phillip Ruddock is monitoring all Fertiliser Movements in Austra
www.talkaboutinvestments.com /group/aus.invest/messages/96425.html   (142 words)

  
 The Blade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
So the editorial came as a surprise and doubly so given we had sent the Hornsby Advocate a press release announcing a local forum on the anti-terror laws for the coming weekend (ironically emphasising the impact on Muslim citizens).
Ruddock not attend the forum, instead opting to meet with the three organisers (which they declined) but the Hornsby Advocate made no mention of this important local event in its next issue.
Ross stood as a candidate in the 2004 Federal election against Mr Ruddock and continues to be active in holding Mr Ruddock to account for his actions and methods.
www.blade.id.au /About_us.aspx   (615 words)

  
 Mr. Phillip Ruddock: A Conscientious Defender of Australia's Sovereignty
Similarly, it is politically correct to support illegal immigrants, even though in many cases they have criminal records, have deliberately destroyed their identification documents and are reported to have scuttled boats (putting their children at risk) in order to compel Australian ships to take them on board.
Ruddock has maintained a firm and dignified public position.
Ruddock will maintain his principled and well-informed defence of Australia’s sovereignty, and he should be applauded for the conscientiousness and firmness that he is displaying.
www.nationalobserver.net /2002_autumn_ed3.htm   (409 words)

  
 Lists and Diagrams: Australia Card Rears Its Ugly Head
Phillip Ruddock has a plan to introduce a national identity card, in a plot reminiscent of the failed 'Australia Card'.
Ruddock claims, in the usual Liberal Party style, that policy shall not be determined by public opinion.
Ruddock is soon expected to announce the results of an independent investigation into the possible benefits of such a card in combating terrorism and fraud, and whether it could be introduced at a reasonable cost.
www.listsanddiagrams.com /archives/2006/02/australia_card.htm   (836 words)

  
 Spy agencies to monitor emails
Attorney-General Phillip Ruddock told parliament the changes would ensure law enforcement agencies could fulfil their roles.
Mr Ruddock said law enforcement agencies should be able to properly investigate crimes.
Mr Ruddock said references to big brother failed to come to grips with the issue.
www.propagandamatrix.com /100304monitoremails.html   (366 words)

  
 Ruddock heckled over Hicks | WA | The Australian
FEDERAL Attorney-General Phillip Ruddock was heckled at a meeting of attorneys-general in WA this morning by protesters calling for the release of terror suspect David Hicks.
Mr Ruddock was not expected to be present during Maj Mori's appearance because it would be "inappropriate", his office said.
Mr Ruddock declined an invitation to attend as the issue was no business of his state counterparts, his spokesman said.
www.theaustralian.news.com.au /story/0,20867,20733888-5006789,00.html   (252 words)

  
 Book debates how Australia stopped refugee boats -DAWN - International; March 13, 2003
Ruddock’s meeting with the government’s ‘People Smuggling Group’ — comprising Australian immigration officials, police officers and foreign affairs officials — was recounted to investigative journalists Marian Wilkinson and David Marr, authors of the book.
When Ruddock persisted in asking about the possibility of pirates attacking the boats, he was cut off by Australian federal police officer Leigh Dixon, Marr and Wilkinson write in their book.
According to a spokesman for Ruddock, the people attending the meetings in Jakarta were not directly under his control, so he had no power to direct them to do anything.
www.dawn.com /2003/03/13/int13.htm   (603 words)

  
 Issues Response   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The media have been particularly critical of Federal Immigration Minister, Phillip Ruddock, due to his role in the treatment of illegal immigrants.
There is also recurring use of alliteration through Manne’s unfavourable characterisation of Phillip Ruddock, who, he says, took it upon himself to “fan the flames” and encouraged a “Hansonite hostility” to illegal immigrants.
Phillip Ruddock replies, “You'll wish you had” while motioning in the direction of the detention centre, represented by a sign saying “Woomera”.
www.koonung.vic.edu.au /home/ps000/yr12eng2/stwrite/smcanal.htm   (1254 words)

  
 Workers Online : Tool Shed : 2001 - Issue 86 : Ruddock: Once Was Wet
Ruddock was the last Wet standing as colleagues Chris Puplick, Ian McPhee and Fred Chaeny fell by the wayside as the Bishops and Abbotts and other canons of the Howard Church spread their Scriptures of Wedge Politics across the party in the late eighties.
Ruddock has mastered the shrug of the shoulders whenever questioned about his handling of the disgrace that is Australia's treatment of refugees.
And now this week Ruddock has barged into the Tool Shed as the plight of the Indian temple workers came to light with proof that Ruddock's Department has done nothing to ensure that minimum wages and conditions are paid.
workers.labor.net.au /86/d_pierswatch_ruddock.html   (953 words)

  
 Here's Why: Big Ruddock Archives
Ironically Attorney-general Phillip Ruddock has led a new censorship drive starting with the TV show Big Brother, and extending through eight titles he has referred to "The Classification Review Board".
Ruddock is upset that Terror Police raids in Sydney found nasty books.
Thus, the law must be changed to match Ruddock's views, and the Howard Regime have the power in both houses to do it, and the precedent of the 2005 Terror Laws.
members.iinet.net.au /~iwoolf/archives/2006/08/big_ruddock.html   (303 words)

  
 Australian Immigration Minister peddles anti-refugee propaganda in the Middle East
Immigration Minister Phillip Ruddock is presently touring Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Syria and Jordan on a publicity campaign aimed at dissuading potential asylum-seekers from coming to Australia.
Accusations that Ruddock had gone too far surfaced after copies of the pamphlet in English, Farsi and Arabic, along with a sample of the media kit, were handed to an inquirer in Canberra by Immigration officials.
Moreover, Ruddock continues to push his cynical equation of unauthorised refugees with the racketeering people traffickers who are the purported target of his publicity campaign.
www.wsws.org /articles/2001/jan2001/imm-j15_prn.shtml   (676 words)

  
 Dunc Nuggets » Blog Archive » Phillip Ruddock - Tosser.
He was responding to comments from a respected former High Court Judge in Australia, Mary Gaudron, who said she was “horrified that anyone could think the US military commission process Hicks faces is good enough”.
Ruddock described her criticisms over the David Hicks case as those of a “retired and armchair” critic.
His statement shows an arrogantly dismissive attitude of the decades of experience that Mary Gaudron has and he should be hung, drawn and quartered for carrying himself with such a superior, know it all attitude.
www.duncanmargetts.com /blog/?p=659   (215 words)

  
 Interview with Philip Ruddock
By the end of counting, the Howard Government could still end up with a Senate majority and may be tempted to push through additional measures tightening national security and increasing police powers.
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”.
Philip Ruddock: I have made it very clear that I intend to see out this term, and all things being equal, I would look for further endorsement from my own constituents, but we will see what happens in relation to that.
seven.com.au /sundaysunrise/politics_041024_ruddock   (1865 words)

  
 Cageprisoners.com - serving the caged prisoners in Guantanamo Bay
FEDERAL Attorney General Phillip Ruddock has renewed urgent calls for Australian terror suspect David Hicks to be brought to trial as quickly as possible, but warns this is unlikely to happen before the new year.
In Washington to meet American officials about the US military commissions, Mr Ruddock said there were timing issues associated with the promulgation of new terror interrogation laws, passed by the US Senate yesterday.
Mr Ruddock also expressed his confidence in the legal framework surrounding the use of torture to extract information from detainees.
www.cageprisoners.com /articles.php?id=16783   (573 words)

  
 Ruddock threatens ACT same-sex union laws. 30/03/2006. ABC News Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Mr Ruddock says the legislation elevates civil unions to the same status as marriage, contrary to Commonwealth legislation.
Mr Stanhope says he is disappointed with Mr Ruddock's position but admits he may have to amend his bill.
A bill to be introduced in the ACT to recognise same sex relationships has struck a very big hitch in the form of the Federal Government.
www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200603/s1604208.htm   (293 words)

  
 The Epoch Times | Attorney Flags ID Card Inquiry
The idea was first floated in the 1980s to cut down on tax avoidance but was defeated in the Senate in 1986 after public outrage.
Mr Ruddock told the Australian Finance Review the main issue now was not whether an ID card should be introduced but what information it should contain, what legislation was needed and how much it would cost to implement.
Mr Ruddock said one of the key reasons for a new system was national security.
www.theepochtimes.com /news/6-1-16/37020.html   (345 words)

  
 Phillip Ruddock for PM : Melbourne Indymedia
Phillip Ruddock for PM by The Rat in the Shadows
I was talking to a little birdie from the Liberal party yesterday and they told me some interesting things.
If Phillip does become the next PM after John we fear for the future of Australia.
melbourne.indymedia.org /news/2003/07/50744_comment.php   (246 words)

  
 Fatima - A Minister's Shame
You said Fatima would accompany her husband Ali and her 3 children,out of the Christmas Island Detention Centre.
But now we learn Mr Ruddock, that Fatima,finally caught up with her family in Dubai.
Why Minister do you have so little respect for family life that you permitted her family to leave Australia for their sad and lonely journey from Christmas Island back to Afghanistan without their loved mother and wife.
www.geocities.com /tashumanity/fatima.html   (600 words)

  
 Phillip News
Police search offices of Taito Phillip Field MP The police this morning executed a search warrant as part of its investigation into the activities of Mangere MP Taito Phillip Field.
Commercial fishermen on the New South Wales north coast are struggling to remain economically viable in the face of the continuing drought.
By PHILLIP COOREY Sydney Morning Herald The Australian Government has ramped up its push for nuclear energy with one minister suggesting work on the first power station could begin within 10 years.
www.topix.net /au/phillip   (622 words)

  
 AsiaMedia :: AUSTRALIA: Journalists' sources case riles Press Council
Harvey and McManus could still be jailed for refusing to reveal their sources, despite Mr Ruddock pledging to intervene in the case.
The reporters refused to disclose their source after being called as witnesses in the trial of former public servant Desmond Patrick Kelly, who is alleged to have leaked a proposal to cut benefits paid to war veterans.
Mr Ruddock has said he would ask the Commonwealth Solicitor-General to seek leave to appear on his behalf in the case.
www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=31540   (357 words)

  
 DemocracyRising.US - Dissent Isn’t Taken Lightly Down Under
After three lovely months of traveling through Australia and meeting people, one Wednesday afternoon during the second week of September I was called by the Australian Security Intelligence Organization, or ASIO, and asked to come in for an interview.
While they may currently hold all the legal cards, they are losing the public debate as lawyers, civil libertarians, environmentalists; former government whistleblowers, grassroots activists, major media outlets and some politicians have spoken out and acted on this baffling outrageous episode.
There have been numerous NON-VIOLENT protests, occupations and direct communications all over Australia, and in the United States, confronting Prime Minister John Howard, Phillip Ruddock and the Australian government about their shabby handling of me and my civil rights.
democracyrising.us /content/view/327/164   (1033 words)

  
 Howard's Australia - www.smh.com.au   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
He made it twice - Howard and Ruddock together, smiling in a sea of white faces on the street.
What made my skin crawl was the thrill John Howard, Phillip Ruddock and Liberal crowd got from them.
Surely a policy produced more in sorry than in anger, to be treated as such in the wake of mass drownings this week.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/11/26/1069522662977.html   (390 words)

  
 Australia's Catholic Bishops appeal for Timor refugees
Australia's Immigration Minister Phillip Ruddock has been asked to establish a special visa category in a bid to allow a group of East Timorese to stay in the country.
It is the second time Archbishop Carroll has written to the minister on behalf of the group of about 1800 asylum seekers.
The government expects the East Timorese, many of whom are children and have lived their whole lives in Australia to return to their impoverished and unstable homeland.
www.etan.org /et2003/february/16-22/19austrl.htm   (449 words)

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