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.

The things which are most important don’t always scream the loudest.

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

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

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

[ 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.

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