The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.
He (Gorton) is not fit to hold the great office of Prime Minister.
Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.
Life wasn't meant to be easy.
We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.
At the moment people get on boats because they flee terror at home and believe the many years' long wait in UNHCR camps is not a valid option, especially if they have children in their care. After the Vietnam War, Australia took a larger humanitarian intake than at any other period in our history. The Australian community accepted that. They were told why we needed to do it, and why it was the only ethical decent policy that a wealthy advanced country should adopt.
Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.
Life is a movement outward, an unfolding.
Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
True nonviolence is mightier than the mightiest violence.