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6 unusual facts about Philip Ruddock


Curtin Immigration Reception and Processing Centre

Curtin was described by former Immigration minister, Philip Ruddock, as the country's "most primitive" processing centre.

Gordon Hookey

He had an exhibition called Ruddock's Wheel, which made fun of a comment by Philip Ruddock who said that aborigines had not used the wheel.

Jacob Kovco

Chief of Defence Force Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, Chief of Army Lieutenant General Peter Leahy, then Defence Minister Brendan Nelson and Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock.

Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

The affair resulted in Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock cutting short an overseas trip to oversee further Immigration handling of the issue.

Mail-order bride

However, during the January 2004 visit to Eastern Europe by Australian Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs Philip Ruddock, Australian-Russian relationships were strengthened while both nations committed to a timetable for reductions in Russian human trafficking into Australia.

Sleep deprivation

In 2006, Australian Federal Attorney-General Philip Ruddock argued that sleep deprivation does not constitute torture.


Joint Sitting of the Australian Parliament of 1974

The only parliamentarian who took part in the Joint Sitting who is still serving today is the Father of the House and of the Parliament, Philip Ruddock, who had been elected to the House of Representatives in 1973.


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