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. — Malcolm Fraser Copy Share Image
Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians. — Malcolm Fraser Copy Share Image
We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face. — Malcolm Fraser Copy Share Image
Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action. — Malcolm Fraser Copy Share Image
Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems.… — Malcolm Fraser Copy Share Image
At the moment people get on boats because they flee terror at home and believe the many years' long wait in UNHCR camps is… — Malcolm Fraser Copy Share Image
Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in… — Malcolm Fraser Copy Share Image
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… — Malcolm Fraser Copy Share Image
I didn't like the way Andrew Peacock was not supported in 1984. He'd done well in that election; he deserved to continue. But by… — Malcolm Fraser Copy Share Image
Socialism is not a way of life. It is an unworkable formula which would apply to robots but not to men and women. — Malcolm Fraser Copy Share Image
There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster. — Malcolm Fraser Copy Share Image
Most asylum seekers do get permanent visas, so the earlier they receive the appropriate help, the faster they will become part of the community.… — Malcolm Fraser Copy Share Image
There should be a global commitment to try and get rid of UNHCR refugee camps and long-term people in those camps. — Malcolm Fraser Copy Share Image
We could try and establish a world in which the great and the powerful adhere to that international law which they require ordinary mortals… — Malcolm Fraser Copy Share Image
Politicians today are not highly regarded... there seem to be people young and old and in the middle saying that they have never heard… — Malcolm Fraser Copy Share Image