Aboriginals Quote by Tamika-leeigh

We must respect each other's right to choose a collective destiny, and the opportunity to develop the legal and political rights for Indigenous and…

— Jackie Huggins

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

At its best, Aboriginal art has been effective in translating an entire culture and the understanding of an entire continent. Indeed, the more we…

— Paul Keating

I often wonder, when I hear some important speaker rattle off the rote land acknowledgements that have become the standard introduction for official events…

— Neil Macdonald

“When I returned home soon afterwards, it was with a newly awakened sense of what Australian literature was good for: helping us define ourselves…

— George Williamson

As Aboriginal people we have always retained our resilience, our humour and our cultural integrity - we will always retain our dreams and a…

— Ken Wyatt

If you can imagine the one family continuously occupying the same land for 40,000 years or more, using it not just to sustain life…

— Tania Major

I hope that I am helping to create an understanding and an awareness of what happened to the Aboriginal people.

— Evonne Goolagong Cawley

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

This is an Australia I'm willing to celebrate; an Australia that listens, learns and empathises with our Indigenous people.

— Madeleine Madden

I love Australia passionately. I love our landscape. It's influenced most of my work, really. Almost everything I've written is about the landscape. Trying…

— Peter Sculthorpe

There are people all over Australia who use their homes as hubs that they travel from, and they encourage their indigenous people to continue…

— Andrew Forrest