"I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments;……" — Hugh Mackay
"I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name."
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Hugh Mackay
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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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More Appalling Quotes
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You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.
— David Attenborough
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The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at…
— James A. Baldwin
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My school reports always used to point out that my concentration levels were appalling. I never listened in class because…
— Jenson Button
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The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth.
— Georg Brandes
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Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to…
— William Wells Brown
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From a wine critic's perspective, there are far too many innocuous, over-oaked, over-acidified, or over-cropped wines emerging from California. While…
— Robert M. Parker, Jr.
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Anti-Semitism hits me on the head: I am enraged, I am bled white by an appalling battle, I am deprived…
— Frantz Fanon
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On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling…
— Bobby Jones
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In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
— Douglas MacArthur
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Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage…
— John le Carre
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One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this…
— Enrico Fermi
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The mindless rejoicing at home is really appalling; it makes me fear that the first blow against Tokyo will make…
— Isoroku Yamamoto
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