"I wish we didn't have to own up……" — Hugh Mackay
"I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been traumatised in the countries from which they've fled."
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33 Quotes by Hugh Mackay
Hugh Mackay has 33 quotes on this site.
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Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.
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Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching…
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Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated…
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Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.
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It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.
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But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like…
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It is the misfortune of contemporary leaders, across the whole spectrum of Australian life, that the community's demand for strong…
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One of the most important responsibilities of leaders in any setting - including business organisations - is to tell us…
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The yearning for strong leadership is more about strength of purpose - clarity of vision - than about merely 'getting…
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Polls are no substitute for leadership because, at its very essence, leadership is about giving people what they don't already…
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Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they…
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Yet in our enthusiasm for the idea that everyone should be able to read and write fluently, we may be…
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