Brothers and sisters Quote by Bob Hawke

Australia's treatment of her Aboriginal people will be the thing on which the world will judge Australia and Australians - Not just now, but…

— Gough Whitlam

“The enigma that had bothered me in Sydney was beginning to resolve itself. If Australians allowed themselves to be represented worldwide as a nation…

— Ted Simon

I ask every Australian to think about what the constitutional exclusion says to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, to see our vast and…

— Adam Goodes

There is a reason why the cultures of Indigenous Australia inspire such fascination. And that is that they represent a unique way of thinking…

— Kevin Rudd

A lot of my identity as an Aboriginal person is about family.

— Shari Sebbens

My family came to Australia on the First Fleet. My family’s been in that country for a long time, over 100 years. If your…

— Iggy Azalea

It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look…

— Tony Abbott

I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality…

— Quentin Bryce

“Our creaturely existence is registered, measured, discussed, and represented in increasingly abstract terms. Maybe this helps explain how someone like me, who should know…

— Tim Winton

The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country’s dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so…

— Quentin Bryce

What we do to our native Australians, our own indigenous people, is nothing short of horrific.

— Peter Norman

Thankfully, Australia has emerged from its inauspicious colonial beginnings to become a proud nation, a nation that overcame those primeval prejudices.

— Rupert Murdoch