Richard Di Natale famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If there's anything I can do, it's to present an alternative vision for the country.
-- Richard Di Natale

#Country #Vision #Alternatives
We have environmental laws for a reason: to protect endangered biodiversity. And as a country that has one of the highest loss of species anywhere in the world, they're important.
-- Richard Di Natale

#Country #Loss #Law
Tony Abbott might think coal's good for humanity, of course it was an important driver in the story of the Australian nation. But when we're talking about the 21st Century and those industries that are gonna take us forward, it won't be coal.
-- Richard Di Natale

#Thinking #Talking #Humanity
I'll always put policy ahead of politics and I think people expect that. They're sick of the politics getting in the way of decent outcomes for people.
-- Richard Di Natale

#Thinking #People #Sick
I've obviously come from a health background. I was a doctor before I became a pollie and one of the things I'd like to do is to really build on the world-class health system we've got. I'm passionate about climate change because it's also a health issue. Things like extreme weather impact on people's health, the ability of our hospitals to cope, the impact on mental health, on farmers in regional areas - they're all serious health concerns.
-- Richard Di Natale

#Class #Weather #Issues
We need to review the process for the election of Speaker. We've got to reform Question Time, which is really a waste of time. There are so many things that we need to do to reform our Parliament and I think it's bigger than that. It's all about the sort of leadership that people are getting at the moment. They're fed up with this sorta day-to-day bickering, not putting the national interest ahead of these narrow partisan interests.
-- Richard Di Natale

#Thinking #People #Waste

American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.
I think in this country we're committed to developing plays, and many plays I've seen have been rewritten too much. The scenes are tight, the play ends at the right time, you know exactly what the scene is about, but it seems flat; you can almost see that too many hands have been on the play. The individual voice is gone.
Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.
I am raising my voice as a citizen of the country. I don?t want to enter politics.
A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.
Movements of people create change - not just any one person or organization, but when lots of people are in motion around a shared vision.
Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.
Freedom is the awareness of alternatives and of the ability to choose. It is contingent upon consciousness, and so may be gained or lost, extended or diminished.
I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food; it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown and the colonel.
... the smaller the domain where choices among alternatives are made collectively, the smaller will be the probability that any individual's preference gets overruled.

Richard Di Natale famous quotes

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