Occupation: Former Prime Minister Of Australia Birth: May 21, 1930 Death: March 20, 2015
He (Gorton) is not fit to hold the great office of Prime Minister..
Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand..
Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members..
We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face..
Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set u….
Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their ….
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 r….
Life wasn't meant to be easy..
Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. ….
Genocide involves the attempt to achieve the disappearance of a group by whatever means. It does not have to be violent, it could be a combination of….
Most asylum seekers do get permanent visas, so the earlier they receive the appropriate help, the faster they will become part of the community. They….
I want to catch Mr Whitlam with his pants down..
There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster..
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..
In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from wha….
Development requires modification and transformation of the environment... the planet's capacity to support its people us being irreversibly reduced ….
Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action..
Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical care, and $50 million in preventative care, is req….
Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling I….
We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to ou….
Even Australians who take a very, very hard line about asylum seekers - and unfortunately there are more than I would like to think - are probably a ….