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"There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster."
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"What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good."

"These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur."

"It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover."

"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."

"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."

"We had had several mine disasters where workers, some of the workers were rescued. It was, you know, who was lucky and who weren't. Some would find the air pockets But, in this one, bam, it was just, everybody was gone and it greatly depressed the state."
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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."

"Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help."

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

"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."

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

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