Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away. But when I'm asked that question I often reflect on my inability really to be able to answer it in any relative sense because I never grew up with a father doing anything else. So I just have no idea what it would be like otherwise.
Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away. But when I'm asked that question I often re… - Alexander Downer
Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away. But when I'm asked that question I often re…
- Alexander Downer
I think prime ministers, I actually think Cabinet ministers should be subject to intense scrutiny, I think that's in the public interest, even if som… - Alexander Downer
I think prime ministers, I actually think Cabinet ministers should be subject to intense scrutiny, I think that's in the public interest, even if som…
My father had the same name as me but he was known as Alec. He was a member of the House of Representatives. - Alexander Downer
My father had the same name as me but he was known as Alec. He was a member of the House of Representatives.
I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all. - Alexander Downer
I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all.
I think any good government will target on the finishing date, that is, the polling day and make sure that their strategy is strong and in place to g… - Alexander Downer
I think any good government will target on the finishing date, that is, the polling day and make sure that their strategy is strong and in place to g…
The protection of human rights to promote the dignity of the individual is too important a matter for symbolic gestures alone. It is only through the… - Alexander Downer
The protection of human rights to promote the dignity of the individual is too important a matter for symbolic gestures alone. It is only through the…
So this is all part of a free society. People are entitled to hold whatever view they want, and the media can report things how they wish. - Alexander Downer
So this is all part of a free society. People are entitled to hold whatever view they want, and the media can report things how they wish.
Yeah, well I'm not aspiring to be the Prime Minister. - Alexander Downer
Yeah, well I'm not aspiring to be the Prime Minister.
Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write. - Alexander Downer
Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.
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