Just awful
"There is nothing worse than being ushered from the plane into a car in front of other passengers." — Counsel for Neil Pickard, sacked NSW agent-general to London, on the hardships of the job, which included an official car.
Which doesn't exist
"The first thing to understand is that Australia truly is a classless society. There are no legal, social or artificial barriers to lock people into a particular class ..." — Roger Nicholls, WA community development minister.
Binge-led recovery?
According to Business Review Weekly, Australian wine exports to the Maldive Islands increased last year by 27,000%.
Tough
"In a tough new move to clean up Sydney Harbour, boat users have been banned from flushing sewage into the water ..." — Sun-
Herald, June 27.
Don't read this
"... hearts as hard as a piece of fossilised dog's shit, with less compassion than a bucket of diarrhoea." — Description of the Department of Veterans Affairs in the magazine Vietnam Veteran. The magazine has been banned from Veterans Review Board offices because of its language.
First time
"The political profession is in worse shape than at any time I can remember. For the first time it is plausible to suspect that British public life is being corrupted." — British Guardian columnist Hugo Young on allegations that Saudi money funded the last Tory election campaign.