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An office for multicultural affairs

Philip Ruddock.

Philip Ruddock, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, 1996, briefly dicussing the Department of The Prime Minister.

Created:

14 March 1996

Date Added:

27 June 2002

Source:

Insight - SBS Television Current Affairs, 14 March 1996

Format:

mov (Quicktime);

File size:

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Length:

41 secs

Transcript

PHILIP RUDDOCK
Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, 1996 -

If you put an office into the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, does it obtain greater weight through presumably access to the Prime Minister, which is assumed? Or if it's in a specialist department with somebody who is vitally interested in the issue, who is going to take up the arguments and run them before colleagues, going to be better served? I think if you are a minister who is keen to pursue questions that are relevant, you have a capacity to influence outcomes if you are sufficiently persuasive. And I don't think it really matters whether you are in the Cabinet, (or) out of the Cabinet, if you are interested in running those issues.

From Insight, SBS Television Current Affairs, 14 March 1996.