Australia's treatment of her Aboriginal people will be the thing on which the world will judge Australia and Australians - Not just now, but in the greater perspective of history.

Poverty is a national waste as well as individual waste. We are all diminished when any of us are denied proper education. The nation is the poorer - a poorer economy, a poorer civilization, because of this human and national waste.

Hostility towards China distorted Australia's international affairs for 20 years until 1972, but reconciliation with China 30 years ago had produced a quarter century of constructive bipartisan relations with our region and the world, unmatched in Australian history.

Maintain your rage and enthusiasm for the campaign for the election now to be held and until polling day.

I have more influence now than when I had the power.

I was profoundly embarrassed by it [the White Australia Policy] and did all I could to change it.

He is lofty, and I am eminent.