Philip Ruddock
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"The Honourable"

/name = Philip Ruddock

/honorific-suffix ="Member of Parliament#Australia/MP"

/image = Philip Ruddock.jpg

/office1 = Father of the Australian House of Representatives

/term_start1 = 1 September 1998

/term_end1 =

/predecessor1 = Ian Sinclair

/successor1 =

/office2 = Minister for Immigration and Citizenship (Australia)/Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs

/primeminister2 = John Howard

/predecessor2 = Nick Bolkus

/successor2 = Amanda Vanstone

/term_start2 = 11 March 1996

/term_end2 = 7 October 2003

/office3 = Attorney-General of Australia

/primeminister3 = John Howard

/predecessor3 = Daryl Williams

/successor3 = Robert McClelland (Australian politician)/Robert McClelland

/term_start3 = 7 October 2003

/term_end3 = 3 December 2007

/office4 = List of whips in the Australian House of Representatives/Chief Government Whip in the House of Representatives

/primeminister4 = Tony Abbott

/predecessor4 = Chris Hayes (politician)/Chris Hayes

/successor4 = Scott Buchholz

/term_start4 = 18 September 2013

/term_end4 = 13 February 2015

/ constituency_MP5= Division of Berowra/Berowra

/parliament5 = Australian

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All of the measures that we are seeking to put in place are balanced and appropriate for the circumstances that we face, ... We're not targeting specific members of the community.

These events started when people were endeavoring to place pressure on us in relation to those matters.

My concern about families is that I'm not yet satisfied that there are arrangements which would meet my principle objective, which is to have people available for processing and for removal if they're not refugees.

Would diminish its capacity.

My understanding of the evidence is that some of the product had been actually purchased, others had been ordered, ... The intelligence assessment is that this was an enterprise designed to manufacture a very large quantity of explosives.

She had very little knowledge of what was happening around the village she was supposed to be living in, didn't know the currency used.

If the parliament is sitting it has to undertake business, that's not a question of picking and choosing.

We will not succumb to any pressure in relation to people who have no entitlement to be released into the Australian community.

This morning ... some 70 to 80 detainees set fire to two recreational buildings, the dining room and an ablution block.