This is the welfare generation, and that is incredibly sad. That will be judged in history as being far worse, I believe, than the stolen generation, because we are literally losing thousands and thousands of our indigenous brothers and sisters to the effects of welfare – drugs, gunja, low morale, alcoholism. I see it everyday and it can stop. The solution is education, training and a guaranteed opportunity.
Andrew ForrestThe most generous part of your philanthropy could be the time you put in to procure the same results and same outcomes and same returns you demand in business.
Andrew ForrestYou cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.
Andrew ForrestI don't see why, if you look at how the Australian culture and psyche is, that we can't be amongst the most generous from the grassroots up, nations in the world.
Andrew ForrestYou remove heavy metals out of the ground and you turn that into tables, and houses and bridges and dreams for people in the developing world. I love doing that.
Andrew Forrest