Genocide involves the attempt to achieve the disappearance of a group by whatever means. It does not have to be violent, it could be a combination of policies that would lead to a certain group dying out.

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.

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.

Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.

Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.

I want to catch Mr Whitlam with his pants down.

Even Australians who take a very, very hard line about asylum seekers - and unfortunately there are more than I would like to think - are probably a bit uncomfortable with the kind of treatment that has been meted out to children in detention by the Australian Government, in their name.