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My name is Kevin, I'm from Queensland, and I'm here to help. -- Kevin Rudd
I am standing for NSW Super 12 coaching position. NSW great. Queensland bad. -- Damir Dokic
Well, something is happening in Queensland that is not happening anywhere else. -- Campbell Newman
I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed. -- Grant Bowler
Begun as a girl from a little country town in central western Queensland, inspired by noble ideas of justice, about fairness, about making the world a better place. -- Quentin Bryce
We should all live in central or southwest Queensland in Australia, which is geologically stable. Or Kansas or Nebraska, because it's relatively geologically stable. I am sure there is no emergency plan for Topeka. -- Simon Winchester
A couple from Sydney or Melbourne might leave on the same day for their holiday: the wife might go sun-bathing at Surfers Paradise, in Queensland, the husband ski-ing in the Snowy Mountains. A lucky country. -- George Mikes
The greatest thing that can happen to the state of Queensland and the nation of Australia would be if and when we get rid of the media. Then we would live in peace and tranquility - but no one would know anything!. -- Johannes "Joh" Bjelke-Petersen
People, regardless of political views, matter in this state and in this country and in this world. And, you know, when people attack people's basic rights and livelihoods, I'm concerned about it. And as a citizen of Queensland and nothing else, I've got the right to express my view. -- Clive Palmer
I was President of the Queensland Young Liberals in 1981. -- George Brandis
I went to college at QUT: Queensland University of Technology. I studied for a Bachelors in finance and acting. -- Brenton Thwaites
I studied drama at the Queensland University of Technology, which was amazing. I can't speak highly enough of that school. -- Brenton Thwaites
What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked. -- Campbell Newman
My parents would never put too much hype into anything. They're very proud of me, but they're Queensland people. They're just glad that I have a job. -- Matt Passmore
None of the serious maritime incidents I had to deal with as transport minister off the pristine Queensland or Western Australian coastline involved an Australian flagged and crewed vessel. -- Anthony Albanese
When I was 16 years old, I joined a drama group called North Queensland Academy of Dramatic Art under a woman called Maggie Shephard-King. She inspired me to audition for the role of Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet.' -- Brenton Thwaites
The Coalition's message of jobs and growth is resonating very, very strongly in North and Central Queensland and one thing they're particularly fearful of is the possibility of a Green-Labor government, a government in which the Green tail wags the Labor dog. -- George Brandis
If there were to be a Labor-Greens government, that would be the end of the Adani mine, that would be the end of coal mining in central Queensland, and that would be the end of their best shot at economic prosperity in the future. -- George Brandis
You asked me about Queensland in particular and regional Queensland where our message of jobs and growth is resonating strongly because that's what is on people's mind, and when the election results are in on 2nd July, I'm confident that that message will be translated into the ballot box. -- George Brandis
I've got enough money in my life to retire now and do nothing. But I've got a duty and obligation to see if we can create more jobs in this state, and the government's got an obligation to approve projects and to assess them for the benefit of the people of Queensland. -- Clive Palmer
Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen has been the Queensland premier the whole time we've been in Australia, and the state is a national joke for having a Deep North government thats said to resemble governments of a generation or more ago in some parts of the US Deep South - governments that always talk about getting things done and never talk about rights. -- Nick Earls
Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest ever recorded on planet Earth. Arctic sea ice is near all-time record lows. Record floods from Pakistan to Queensland to the Mississippi basin; record drought from the steppes of Russia to the plains of Texas...This is what climate change looks like in its early stages. -- Bill McKibben

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