"There were a couple Aborigines in my primary……" — Phillip Noyce
"There were a couple Aborigines in my primary school, but we never spoke to them. They kept to themselves, and we never really even locked eyes. They weren't acknowledged officially either."
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16 Quotes by Phillip Noyce
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The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part…
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Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and…
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Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when…
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You always try to work for your audience, to entertain them, but that being said, obviously, within the studio system…
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Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.
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After working for years in Hollywood where the actors have taken over, it was a real relief to get down…
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So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked.…
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A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants…
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I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence.
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People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you…
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The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, her…
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Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as…
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More Aborigines Quotes
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Unfortunately for many Aboriginal people, of course, they've been in the situation of being herded on government reserves. Their own…
— Lowitja O'Donoghue
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Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south,…
— Charles Darwin
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Toward the aborigines of the country no one can indulge a more friendly feeling than myself, or would go further…
— Andrew Jackson
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The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.
— William M. Evarts
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It is time to ask: are we Aborigines a serious people? … Do we have the seriousness necessary to maintain…
— Noel Pearson
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If Australia is The Lucky Country, the Aborigines must be the unluckiest people in the world.
— Frank Hardy
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Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber;…
— Ambrose Bierce
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One thing is certain: the call of Christ is always a promotion. Were Christ to call a king from his…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The darkest secret of this country, I am afraid, is that too many of its citizens imagine that they belong…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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In the late 19th century, the theory that the Aborigines were an inferior race that was doomed to die out…
— Richard Flanagan
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I have met Aborigines younger than me who used to hide every time anyone official came round their camp for…
— Richard Flanagan
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Nothing seemed to offer more striking proof to the late Victorian mind of the infernal truth of social Darwinism than…
— Richard Flanagan
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