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

I had a very close relationship with [Brian] Mulroney.

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 believe [ Rajiv Gandhi] had a real sense that he would be assassinated.

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

I wrote a letter to our Australian newspaper about three weeks before the invasion and I said, "Osama bin Laden must be on his knees morning and night praying to Allah that the Americans will invade." And, of course, he was, because nothing more advanced his cause - the cause of terrorism - than the invasion of Iraq. It was an absurdity.

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