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

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.

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.

How can something so wrong feel so right?

This is how sudden things happened that haunted forever.

Love is a red rose

I cannot believe that in all the years that there have been female stand-ups, there has never been a show just for them.

Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.

Death is the second oldest of the Endless. It's hard not to love her. She loves you, after all.

When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.

Whatever you're working on, take small bites. The task will not be overwhelming if you can reduce it to its smallest component.

There are a lot of mountains with a lot of water.

Progress is impossible without change