Malcolm Fraser Quotes

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• Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.
• Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical care, and $50 million in preventative care, is required to…
• If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because…
• 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…
• Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response…
• Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand.
• Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They…
• People die because they find living too painful.
• Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.
• 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…
• There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
• Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families.…
• We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.
• We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.
• Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.

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