Ellison was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Family Services and to the Attorney-General in 1997, Minister for Customs and Consumer Affairs and Minister Assisting the Attorney-General 1997, Minister for Schools, Vocational Education and Training 1997_98 and Special Minister of State 1998_2001. He has been Minister for Justice and Customs since January 2001.
CHRISELLISON: I think that Laurie, you have to remember that we are there as an interim measure until the United Nations determines the extent of its involvement.
CHRISELLISON: I think lessons have been learnt from this, but you have to remember Laurie that we continued with our involvement, we had 15 Australian Federal Police continue working with the East Timorese police in a $40 million program, which was to run to 2008.
CHRISELLISON: Broadly, we discussed a range of measures in relation to the protection of infrastructure, and I think that that is what you have to look at in a broader sense.
You surely can't win the WSOP Main Event on Day 1, but you can definitely lose it.
ChrisEllison, PokerStars qualifier from Detroit, hasn't lost it today, but he has built a sizable stack to put him among the chip lead by 10:00 PM Saturday evening.
Chris qualified through a double shootout and stood at $45k behind PokerStars qualifier Akshay Kumar at $68.5k.