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

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

I'm the only P.M. of which that can be said - 'His legislation was never declared invalid in the High Court.'

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.

She was a remarkable person and the love of my life. We were married for almost 70 years. She encouraged and sustained me and our four children, their families and many other people in a life full of engagement with Australians from all walks of life.

I've never said I'm immortal. I do believe in correct language. I'm eternal; I'm not immortal.

Ladies and gentlemen, well may we say 'God Save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General. The proclamation you have just heard was countersigned Malcolm Fraser, who will go down in history as Kerr's cur.