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

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.

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.

I've just vowed my love for you. Have you nothing to say in return?" Duncan asked."Thank you, husband.

I sometimes find myself sitting here not watching an uninteresting movie and contemplating the future. I don't always know what to do, but I have faith that I'll figure it out somehow.

The pen is mightier than the sword.

I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.

I guess getting older has its benefits, one of them being perspective.

No matter how horrid a person may appear on the surface, if you dig deeper, you will find some nice, unexpected little quality.

You have to laugh at yourself, because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't.

That would have been a great ticket, Reagan and Ford - an actor and a stuntman.

Of religion I know nothing -- at least, in its favor.

I've learned through experience that to trouble celebrities with my handshake doesn't do anybody any good.