It's been expensive to bail out the banks, but as Lehman Brothers demonstrated, it would have been far more costly to let them go under.
The premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the deal demonstrated her support for "responsible and sustainable development" of the port and the Galilee Basin, inland from Bowen in north Queensland.
That was again demonstrated as the half-time whistle was met by a chorus of booing.
The last demonstrated the purest skill, as he twisted into position to drill in after Nathan Aké's beautiful assist.
It was on that trip that the 33-year-old demonstrated to the Lions coach, Mark Robinson, he was back to his best, both on and off the field, scoring an unbeaten 211 in Paarl in the first of two unofficial Tests against South Africa.
This civic-mindedness has never been allowed to recover, due in large part to the loyalist paramilitaries who demonstrated the other night in east Belfast that they are not yet ready to allow their communities the emancipation they truly deserve.
What is worrying is that the original story was so clearly completely untrue and contained clear statements from the council that demonstrated this.
This is best demonstrated by the decision not to send a minister to the United Nations climate negotiations in Warsaw.
A half-dozen animal rights protesters demonstrated near the racetrack entrance.
The team demonstrated a lot of virtues," he added.
Yet what is demonstrated beyond question is the devastating lack of proper local oversight in the schools landscape following Michael Gove's education programme.
