I want to catch Mr Whitlam with his pants down.

In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks.

Development requires modification and transformation of the environment... the planet's capacity to support its people us being irreversibly reduced by the destruction and degradation of the biosphere and the need to understand the problem and take corrective action is becoming urgent.

We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.

People die because they find living too painful.

Life wasn't meant to be easy.

I think the climate is too important to say we are going to wait until all our economic woes are over before we act effectively.