George Brandis Quotes - Page 2

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• I've always been a lover of classical music ever since I was an early teenager I suppose. I remember the very first piece of classical music that grabbed me was I bought an LP of Daniel Barenboim performing Mozart's piano concertos and I would have been about 14 or 15 at the time and I remember I played it over and over again.

  George Brandis

  Teenager, Piano, Pieces

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Malcolm Fraser, in the marrow of his bones, despised racism. He despised people who discriminated against other people because they were different and in particular because of the colour of their skin, and I don't think there has been a time in Australian politics where there has been more attention to the importance of that value.

  George Brandis

  Thinking, Racism, People

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Let's be frank: if there are hardened terrorists [Australian] who are fighting overseas, we don't want to see those people come back to our shores. But if we could stop youngsters, teenagers from falling into the snares of ISIL or Jabhat al-Nusra or other terrorist organisations through parental intervention and other strategies then, we hope to be able to rescue them before they commit these crimes.

  George Brandis

  Teenager, Fall, Fighting

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I'd say about Malcolm Fraser, as he said about himself, is that he was always, from the day he entered Parliament in 1955 until the day he died today, was a Liberal.

  George Brandis

  Today, Parliament, Said

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The political bug first bit me was Malcolm Fraser's resignation from the Gorton Government.

  George Brandis

  Government, Political, Bugs

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• As a Liberal of course I am very strongly committed to the notion of artistic freedom and very hostile to the idea of there being a single view of cultural policy dictated from on high.

  George Brandis

  Views, Ideas, Artistic

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I think it displayed what the Australia Council does so well, the awarding of artists who at various steps in their career had been encouraged by the Australia Council.

  George Brandis

  Artist, Thinking, Careers

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I am a very, very strong advocate of the notion that we shouldn't equate the arts with other aspects of infrastructure. They have a unique role in any civilised society and that requires appropriate and targeted government support.

  George Brandis

  Art, Strong, Unique

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The arts are part of a nation's identity, they are part of a nation's soul and when we look at a country from the eyes of people overseas they are part of a nations branding in the world as it were.

  George Brandis

  Country, Art, Eye

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The tyranny of distance is such an important element of policy and the allocation of resources.

  George Brandis

  Distance, Important, Elements

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I am the enemy of anything parochial.

  George Brandis

  Enemy

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I think it's very, very important that people outside the capital cities, not just Sydney and Melbourne but also Brisbane Perth Adelaide and so on, have the greatest access to the best cultural experiences they can in both the performing arts and the visual arts.

  George Brandis

  Art, Thinking, Cities

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• We need to tell Australian stories,we need to encourage and fund and present Australian work but we also need to understand that for a sophisticated, educated, culturally aware, modern nation we can't be parochial.

  George Brandis

  Needs, Stories, Sophisticated

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.

  George Brandis

  Tradition, Great Work, Universal

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.I want an Australian vision of arts policy that is expansive, is embracing, is not narrow, is not parochial. For example, that Australians can do Shakespeare just as well as Englishmen can because we, like every civilised nation, partake of the great canonical works. It's not about Australian nationalism; it's about our identity as a culturally ambitious, culturally sophisticated nation.

  George Brandis

  Art, Vision, Ambitious

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I think it would be frankly a retrograde thing for Pauline Hanson to be elected to the Senate.

  George Brandis

  Thinking, Would Be, Retrograde

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Abdul Nacer Benbrika's sentence doesn't expire, I'm told, until 2021, but I think it would be invidious for me as the Attorney-General to talk about individual cases or to anticipate the way in which a court, because it would be a judicial decision, might at some unspecified future time dispose of an application under a law that hasn't even yet been enacted.

  George Brandis

  Thinking, Law, Decision

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Bill Shorten should - either knows that or at least he should know it and for him to change the conversation by proposing - by suggesting a proposal significantly more adventurous than where the conversation has been up until now was a very unhelpful intervention.

  George Brandis

  Bills, Proposal, Adventurous

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• She is not being preferenced - she's not on our preference card because Pauline Hanson's view of Australia is basically a very - it's a very old view.

  George Brandis

  Views, Australia, Cards

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The modern Australia, the Australia of the 21st Century, Malcolm Turnbull's Australia has nothing to do with the kind of protectionist and xenophobic attitudes that Pauline Hanson represents.

  George Brandis

  Attitude, Australia, Kind

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• This is an issue that the Prime Minister put on the COAG agenda. First of all, it is something that would only apply in an extreme case where the service by a terrorist of a sentence of imprisonment had in no way curbed their desire or their intention to commit terrorist offences in the community, so that this is a - would be a public safety measure. The second point I'd make to you is that this is not unknown to the law.

  George Brandis

  Law, Issues, Safety

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• That was an extremely unhelpful thing for Bill Shorten to say because those of us - and as the Attorney-General I've been closely involved in this along with my colleague Nigel Scullion, the Minister for Indigenous Affairs - what we have been trying to do for some years now, throughout the life of the Coalition Government in fact, is to bring the Australian people on a journey with us - conservative Australians as well as more progressive Australians, to persuade them that it is a seemly and fitting and decent and appropriate thing to recognise the first Australians in the Constitution.

  George Brandis

  Journey, Years, Government

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• There have been 44 constitutional referenda in Australia and only eight have succeeded.

  George Brandis

  Eight, Australia, Has Beens

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I decided few years ago to leave the bar to pursue a career in politics because I wanted to make a contribution in Parliament.

  George Brandis

  Careers, Years, Bars

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• It is a necessary precondition for the success of a referendum that there should be broad community consensus and bipartisan support for it.

  George Brandis

  Community, Support, Broads

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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