I think this is one of the problems that we're having in Indigenous affairs. Why we're not confronting the issues that are going to resolve it, the a….

I have got to say, I'm a businessman, I work in business, worked with some very large corporations around the world, and I have never seen a better o….

As far as I'm concerned, any Aboriginal that gets out there and accepts money that has been put out as a package for this bicentenary is actually acc….

Reconciliation will not work if it puts a higher value on symbolic gestures and overblown promises rather than the practical needs of Aboriginal and ….

People - whether you like to hear what people have got to say, not you have got to listen to them, and turning your back on people I found very insul….

We were very - we were a working family, and my father had this very simple philosophy, simple working class approach. If you spoke to my father and ….

I can convert anyone..

The Labor Party has always - always been praised as leaders. In fact, there's probably more books written about ALP leaders and the ALP people than t….

My father was an old - fashioned bloke, and he actually told me one day, "I'm not your friend, I'm your father. My job is to bring you up, give you v….

The Labor roots are very strong.Paul Keating, made a comment several years ago about looking at that dragging yourself out of poverty, dragging yours….

I noticed - and this is one of the people don't understand of Tony [Abbot] - he grew. To me he grew as opposition leader. He come in - he wasn't real….

A good government is one with a duty to help everyone, to maximise his or her potential: Indigenous people, people with disabilities, and our forgott….

If I told my parents that I was going to do that [ to be really counsel to a Prime Minister] when I was kid, they would probably put me in therapy..

I'm a great reader of history. I love - I have been reading history since I was a kid, and learning the lessons globally of what happened with people..

Marists are workers, we do all the work and Jesuits just think about it..

Unless we confront our history, unless we deal with it and move forward, not with recrimination, and move forward then we're always going to have the….

You always felt not happy about things, but you just couldn't put your finger on what was going..

I'm a great lover of human beings..

If you don't learn about each other, you do not understand each other, and you don't hide warts and all, both sides, then you're forever going to rep….