I said to my people, "We're knocking apartheid off but we've got to be prepared to assist them." And I sent senior people over there to assist the incoming South African regime to go about the economic plan.

[John Howard] led the Government. They had the numbers, and just basically automatically went along with the Americans.

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.

I hated [Robert Mugabe]. He's one of the worst human beings I've ever met. He treated black and white with equal contempt. He was a horrible human being.

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

I had no time for Indira Gandhi. She was too much in the Russian camp for my liking.

I respected [Margaret Thatcher] enormously. She had great integrity in that respect.