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

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.

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.

Never would I have a man saying what or who were best for me, and that were all there were to it.

A healing journey into the inner conflicts and contradictions that separate spirit from self.

Each day is a little life.

My wife is the fact-checker, I'm in the story telling business.

Holiness is not to love Jesus and do whatever you want. Holiness is to love God and do what He wants.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to see the company.

In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.

When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.

There is no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would be one of my favorite things!