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"There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster."
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"Iraq continues to be an immense disaster, and the President has no apparent plan for getting our troops out."

"The Fukushima nuclear complex went on to become the worst man-made engineering disaster in all of human history, outside of war."

"Turning the Internet over to the U.N. or some other phony international organization would be a disaster, and I am not willing to stand by and let it happen."

"You know, when something like, even like a coal mine disaster, or something like this, you think that well everybody's going to make a run to be able to get out, but it happened to fast that they were just all dead."

"One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea."

"There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster."

"First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images."
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"Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial."

"Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action."

"Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions."

"In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks."

"Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical care, and $50 million in preventative care, is required to provide services at the same level as for any other group with the health conditions of Indigenous Australians."

"If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations."

"We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face."
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