At the moment people get on boats because they flee terror at home and believe the many years' long wait in UNHCR camps is not a valid option, especi….

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

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….

Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand..

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 ….

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….

Development requires modification and transformation of the environment... the planet's capacity to support its people us being irreversibly reduced ….

Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their ….

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

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

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..

Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. ….

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

Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical care, and $50 million in preventative care, is req….

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

In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from wha….

Life wasn't meant to be easy..

I want to catch Mr Whitlam with his pants down..

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

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….

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….