I can't speak with authority about Emeka Anyaoku. I just didn't know him that well.

She [ Elizabeth II] is, you know, "Do-what-you're-told, Lady". But in the Commonwealth, she is much more than just a figurehead.

If you've got good chemistry at the top, it's an enormous help. It's easy to have good chemistry with some, not so easy with others. With [Robert Mugabe], for example.

We will not allow to become a political issue in this country the question of Asianisation.

Do you know why I have credibility? Because I don't exude morality.

Bill Heseltine had been at university with me, at the University of Western Australia. I knew him well.

I assumed the leadership within the Commonwealth for the fight against apartheid. I was very much assisted by Brian Mulroney, the Prime Minister of Canada, [and] Rajiv Gandhi, when he became the Prime Minister of India. And there were trade sanctions.