Because we can imagine, we are free.
If I begin my book with a review of the coup, it is only to show that my abiding interests for Australia did not end with it. They shall end only with a long and fortunate life.
She was a remarkable person and the love of my life.
I've never said I'm immortal. I do believe in correct language. I'm eternal; I'm not immortal.
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.
Well may we say 'God save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General'.
When Sir Winton Turnbull [who represented a large rural seat] was raving and ranting on the adjournment and shouted: “I am a Country member”. I interjected “I remember”. He could not understand why, for the first time in all the years he had been speaking in the House, there was instant and loud applause from both sides.
I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
Paperwork wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for all the paper. And the work.
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
The capitalist system, in spite of all obstacles put in its way by governments and politicians, has raised the standard of living of the masses in an unprecedented way.