Malcolm Fraser's Quotes
Born: 1930-05-21
Profession: Politician
Nation: Australian
Biography of Malcolm Fraser
Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.
Tags: Change, Heart, SocialSolutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.
Tags: Else, Someone, WhileOver 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
Tags: Family, Health, MedicalWe are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.
Tags: Healing, Life, NationalMaoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand.
Tags: Fishing, Half, IndustryWe are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.
Tags: Behind, Face, FarYet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.
Tags: Family, Searching, ThousandsHealth 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.
Tags: Care, Health, YearIf 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.
Tags: Help, Sometimes, StolenIn 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.
Tags: End, Last, MindsLast 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.
Tags: Help, Home, SorrySorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians.
Tags: Challenge, Giving, SorryThree 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.
Tags: Design, Government, SaidSchools that are to cater for the whole population must offer courses that are as rich and varied as are the needs and abilities of the children who enter them.
Tags: Children, Rich, WholeThe government's objective, broadly expressed, is that all persons, whatever their level of ability, whether they live in town or country, have a right as citizens to a free education of the kind for which they are best fitted and to the fullest extent of their powers.
Tags: Best, Education, GovernmentThe images attempt to capture scientific thought. They represent the physical manifestation of the thought process. Everything in the laboratory is a product of a stream of conscious or unconscious thought.
Tags: Process, Scientific, ThoughtTelevision should be kept in its proper place - beside us, before us, but never between us and the larger life.
Tags: Between, Life, Place