By 1990, no Australian child will be living in poverty.

I led the fight here against apartheid as President of the ACTU, including particularly the Springbok tour in 1971. And that led to the banning of the South African cricket tour which had been scheduled - that was something that I sorted out with Sir Donald Bradman. That was interesting.

[ Elizabeth II] has immersed herself, in the sense [that] she can speak intelligently about any and all members of the Commonwealth and she has played a role.

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

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

The concept there was that the small number of developed countries within the Commonwealth should provide assistance. This was not just financial but personal, providing experts and so on, to assist less developed members of the Commonwealth to get on the growing path. And that was part of what we did with South Africa.

As far as we're concerned, there was no sporting organisation [that] should have anything to do with the sport in South Africa.