Obviously the Foreign Investment Review Board needs to look at that, my issue has always been about Australian ownership and not targeting the particular foreign countries.

Nick Xenophon

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In Australia there are not limits on what you can believe but there are limits on how you can behave. It's called the law, and no one is above it.

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If you run for election with a particular agenda about saving jobs, about strengthening manufacturing and farming jobs, about tackling predatory gambling and making governments accountable, if there's an opportunity to achieve that agenda with either side of politics, particularly if you come from the political centre, then it's an opportunity you should take up.

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That's one of the good things about being from the political centre, you're willing to work with both side of politics.

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I'm not against free trade but I'm against free trade deals that are negotiated badly, that actually compromise jobs, manufacturing jobs, compromise the national interest.

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I regularly see constituents, speak to people who feel let down by the justice system quite fundamentally, and these are people who don't make the headlines. These are people who have felt that their sense - their grief, their sense of injustice has been compounded by a system that just doesn't work, that just doesn't listen to victims, that effectively disempowers them all too often.

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I don't know if I am a very good politician. I'm not a good hater... by Nick Xenophon

I don't know if I am a very good politician. I'm not a good hater.

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We want the parliament to work. We want it to be constructive. We want to be part of the solution, not part of the problem. So, for those that want to cause maximum mayhem in the parliament we won't be part of that.

I'd like to think that good public policy should be driven not by a warm friendship between two prime ministers, but by strategic and economic considerations and practical and technical considerations.