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Nicholas Hugh Minchin is a former Australian politician and currently serves as the Australian Consul-General in New York, USA. He previously served as a Liberal member of the Australian Senate representing South Australia from July 1993 to June 2011, and a former cabinet minister in the Howard Government. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. April 1953
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Famous Nick Minchin Quotes

“Mr Turnbull declined this proposition so I advised that I would have no alternative but to resign from the Shadow Cabinet as I was not able to support the CPRS legislation”

Nick Minchin

CRN Online http://www.crn.com.au/News/161485,minchin-quits-shadow-communications-portfolio.aspx

“It is absolutely outrageous that a spin doctor for Labor's NBN Co is being paid $450,000 per annum by Australian taxpayers to promote a company that generates no revenue, has no customers and provides no services to anybody”

Nick Minchin

Sydney Morning Herald http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/bligh-chief-to-nbn-co-to-be-paid-450k-20091118-imfb.html

“It is literally crazy to be committing to an ETS (emissions trading scheme) before seeing the outcome of Copenhagen... and frankly idiotic before we see the final form of the US emissions trading scheme”

Nick Minchin

The Australian http://www.theaustralian.com.au/politics/turnbull-loses-vital-ets-ally/story-e6frgczf-1225799948099

“I have said consistently in my 16-and-a-half years in the parliament, I have always supported the party room's decision and the party room is the ultimate authority on these matters. I don't expect that to change.”

Nick Minchin

Herald Sun http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/liberal-party-further-divided-by-ets-negogiations-as-tony-abbott-abandons-malcolm-turnbulls-push-for-amendments/story-e6frf7jo-1225800035236

“If the question is do people (in the Liberal Party) believe that human beings are the main cause of the planet warming, then I'd say a majority don't accept that position”

Nick Minchin

Xinhua News Agency http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/10/content_12423488.htm

“Mr Rudd's arrogance and vanity in wanting to lead the world in cutting C02 emissions is really sickening”

Nick Minchin

ABC News Online http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/20/2748171.htm

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