“Even our new Commissioner of Police Andrew Hughes went so far as to say that those involved in these kinds of things are called domestic terrorists. Someone should remind Mr Hughes, who is an Australian, what his own people did to our counterparts.”

—  Apisai Tora

Senate speech, 24 August 2004 (excerpts)

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