Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.

Life wasn't meant to be easy.

We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.

Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.

We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.

There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.

Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.

He (Gorton) is not fit to hold the great office of Prime Minister.

I think the climate is too important to say we are going to wait until all our economic woes are over before we act effectively.

The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon present forces, to recognise the need for change.

I want to catch Mr Whitlam with his pants down.

Stuff your brain with knowledge.

If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.

I stopped living a long time ago, in order to simply exist. Now I am trying to leave existence, in order to step into nihility.

Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda.

Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason.

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?

Wherever you have planted a seed, I am prepared to expect wonders.

It is often those who are despised and trampled on that bear up the weight of a whole nation.

In brief, we who write are all in the same boat, as if we are survivors of torpedoes, and we hope to reach the shores of thought with strength for more activity.

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.