We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living conditions.

The majority of Aboriginals do not want handouts because they realise that welfare is killing them.

We have lost all our big Australian industries and icons, including Qantas when it sold 25 per cent of its shares and a controlling interest to British Airways.

I do not believe that the colour of one's skin determines whether you are disadvantaged.

I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.

A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side.

We must look after our own before lining the pockets of overseas countries and investors.