Michael McCormack said
:
“I was trying to be respectful – I really took one for team Australia,”
guardian Friday, December 16, 2022 10:00:00 AM EAT
Michael McCormack said
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“It’s not closed off, but we want more detail,”
guardian Wednesday, November 30, 2022 4:23:00 AM EAT
Michael McCormack said
:
“We would want steadfast clarity, it would have to be a long leap of faith from where we are now, and more thorough detail than the motherhood statements we’ve heard so far,” “If we’re going to change the constitution and change the lives of Aboriginal people, it has to be meaningful and tangible to help closing the gap … it hasn’t happened so far”
guardian Wednesday, November 30, 2022 4:23:00 AM EAT
Michael McCormack says
:
“I do remember having a conversation about, if asked where the PM is, what I should say,” “I had the security [detail], that would raise the question if I was acting PM,”
watoday Sunday, November 13, 2022 9:41:00 PM EAT
Michael McCormack says
:
“I do remember having a conversation about, if asked where the PM is, what I should say,” “I had the security [detail], that would raise the question if I was acting PM,”
theherald-au Sunday, November 13, 2022 9:28:00 PM EAT
Michael McCormack said
:
“We can’t just point the finger at the Libs for those losses,”
brisbanetimes Saturday, May 28, 2022 10:37:00 AM EAT
Michael McCormack said
:
“We can’t just point the finger at the Libs for those losses. We gave people an excuse to park their votes with the teals and they did so in such numbers the Libs lost,”
watoday Tuesday, May 24, 2022 12:05:00 PM EAT
Michael McCormack said
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about Matt Canavan
)
:
“The teal candidates used our party leader’s name against the Liberals in their inner-city campaigns,” “We settled where we needed to land [on the net zero policy] then in the midst of a heated campaign Canavan came out and said it was dead”
watoday Tuesday, May 24, 2022 12:05:00 PM EAT
Michael McCormack said
:
“We can’t just point the finger at the Libs for those losses. We gave people an excuse to park their votes with the teals and they did so in such numbers the Libs lost,”
theage Tuesday, May 24, 2022 10:39:00 AM EAT
Michael McCormack said
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about Matt Canavan
)
:
“The teal candidates used our party leader’s name against the Liberals in their inner-city campaigns,” “We settled where we needed to land [on the net zero policy] then in the midst of a heated campaign Canavan came out and said it was dead”
theage Tuesday, May 24, 2022 10:39:00 AM EAT
Michael McCormack said
:
“We can’t just point the finger at the Libs for those losses. We gave people an excuse to park their votes with the teals and they did so in such numbers the Libs lost,”
brisbanetimes Tuesday, May 24, 2022 10:10:00 AM EAT
Michael McCormack said
(
about Matt Canavan
)
:
“The teal candidates used our party leader’s name against the Liberals in their inner-city campaigns,” “We settled where we needed to land [on the net zero policy] then in the midst of a heated campaign Canavan came out and said it was dead”
brisbanetimes Tuesday, May 24, 2022 10:10:00 AM EAT
Michael McCormack said
:
“The leadership change last year shouldn’t have happened. Whether that influenced the inner-city seats, where I was very popular, and provided a lot of infrastructure as minister, and spent a lot of time in, will be for others to decide”
guardian Sunday, May 22, 2022 9:02:00 PM EAT
Michael McCormack said
:
“There were many wins I had behind closed doors with Liberal leaders, Scott Morrison included, that I didn’t then go and shout from the rooftops to everybody to let them know I had effected change,” “And I would always sooner get something done, and achieve it, and make sure that it was going to be a great outcome for rural and regional Australians, rather than have a unnecessary fight with a state minister or a state premier, get a page six headline in a Sydney tabloid or indeed get a spot on Sky News and have one of the After Dark presenters praising me from the rooftops because I’d been so feisty”
guardian Tuesday, May 3, 2022 11:58:00 AM EAT
Michael McCormack said
:
“I worry those days [… are] gone”
guardian Tuesday, May 3, 2022 11:58:00 AM EAT
Michael McCormack said
:
“It’s a question you should put to the National party leader, yes I was disappointed at the decision to dismantle that group,” “They had a lot to offer”
guardian Tuesday, May 3, 2022 11:58:00 AM EAT
Michael McCormack said
:
“For me, girls sport is for girls,” “Perhaps she could have chosen her words more carefully but do you want parliamentarians being wallflowers and saying all the same things or do we want parliamentarians who are going to be passionate, who are going to speak their mind and stir the pot occasionally”
guardian Tuesday, May 3, 2022 11:58:00 AM EAT
Michael McCormack said
:
“When you build national infrastructure it is going to effect somebody somewhere but we can’t be a banana republic and build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything,” “We have to get on and stop nimbyism”
guardian Tuesday, May 3, 2022 11:58:00 AM EAT
Michael McCormack said
:
"This invention allows our client base to easily implement and sustain a massive, scalable metaverse that is secure and able to keep-up with the pace of innovation,"
prnewswire Thursday, April 7, 2022 3:19:00 AM EAT
Michael McCormack says
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about Alex Hawke
)
:
“That to me really spoke volumes about him,” “Alex really takes his job seriously. I’ve heard from other colleagues who share my view, who say he’s as good as we’ve had in the role”
brisbanetimes Friday, February 18, 2022 9:39:00 PM EAT
Michael McCormack says
:
“He knew the case back to front. Not because he had an adviser shove it under his face five minutes earlier, but because he cared,” “You’re going to have those numbers people in political parties, rightly or wrongly. I suppose you’d regard him as a bit of a political animal. He’s come up through the system. [But] if you know him from the point of view that I do, what you have is a very understanding and compassionate person”
brisbanetimes Friday, February 18, 2022 9:39:00 PM EAT
Michael McCormack told
:
"I might even say a little prayer for our election prospects,"
9news Tuesday, February 8, 2022 6:15:00 AM EAT
Michael McCormack told
:
“I know you get ribbed about getting dressed up as Elvis, but in January it’s the only thing on. If you don’t dress up and take a part, it’s frowned upon,”
guardian Tuesday, January 25, 2022 7:57:00 PM EAT
Michael McCormack said
:
“But what happens now that the artists, visitors and suppliers they usually share with Tamworth, they’re going to have divided loyalties,”
guardian Tuesday, January 25, 2022 7:57:00 PM EAT
Michael McCormack wrote
:
"David Kibbey was an ideas man who wanted young people to realise their potential to build a better culture and a better country. The ADF Gap Year program, which began in 2007, is loosely based around Kibbey's 1994 national service concept. David was a traditionalist but someone also ahead of his time. "
dailyadvertiser Friday, January 7, 2022 2:12:00 AM EAT
Michael McCormack said
:
"Old Parliament House is on fire with protesters screaming "
saudigazette Thursday, December 30, 2021 7:33:00 AM EAT
Michael McCormack said
:
"Old Parliament House is on fire with protesters screaming "Let it burn! Let it burn!"
bbc Thursday, December 30, 2021 7:30:00 AM EAT
Michael McCormack said
:
“We’re in full agreement with the government and the government’s position is the government’s position we took to Glasgow”
guardian Wednesday, November 17, 2021 11:02:00 AM EAT
Michael McCormack says
:
“It’s just a great story,” “I knew I had this guy who jumped off the screen. Was it emotional to make? Funnily enough it wasn’t that emotional. Ferg was one of the funniest guys you’d ever meet. I spent most of my time cracking up around him. You never really looked at the muscular dystrophy. Because he didn’t. It was only in the last couple of years that he started to talk about the disease because it was getting in the way of his life”
irishexaminer Wednesday, November 10, 2021 11:06:00 PM EAT
Michael McCormack says
:
“There were always musicians around that area of Dublin,” “They were young and they were very cool. And so you’d get people hanging out, just to catch glimpses of them. It was squatting time. Everyone you knew spent some period of time squatting, in Ranelagh or Rathmines or the centre of the city. Places like An Béal Bocht [on Charlemont Street ] existed, that were superb venues and open to young bands coming through. It just seemed like you could be in a band then and you aren’t making a lot of money. But at least you could survive”
irishexaminer Wednesday, November 10, 2021 11:06:00 PM EAT
Michael McCormack says
:
“Glen Hansard, Steve Wall, Mundy – all the people he worked with got some of energy from him. He definitely did have something,” “When he decided that he wanted to make music his focus, when he was constantly having to change the way he made music [because of his disability], the only way he was able to do it was to become the spider and get people into the web and have them hang on for dear life”
irishexaminer Wednesday, November 10, 2021 11:06:00 PM EAT
Michael McCormack said
:
“To think the leadership thought it reasonable to take resources out of cabinet was completely insane,”
foreignaffairs-nz Monday, October 25, 2021 2:36:00 PM EAT
Michael McCormack said
:
“I don’t think that the party was actually dissatisfied with my performance,” “Some others wanted their job back and that drove them for three years. And I appreciate that this is democracy and it’s all about numbers, politics is the brutal arithmetic of numbers”
smh Tuesday, June 22, 2021 6:17:00 AM EAT
Michael McCormack told
:
"People aren't dissatisfied with what I'm doing as Deputy Prime Minister, they want my job,"
abc-au Monday, June 21, 2021 11:01:00 PM EAT
Michael McCormack told
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about Barnaby Joyce
)
:
“I wish Barnaby Joyce all the best as leader of the National Party,”
theepochtimes Monday, June 21, 2021 10:47:00 AM EAT
Michael McCormack said
:
"I've been to a lot of country sporting stadiums around the nation and I have not seen a better one,"
sunraysiadaily Friday, June 18, 2021 11:01:00 PM EAT