“Too often I wasn’t there. I missed a lot but I had a job to do. And you will have your jobs to do and you will make your choices and live with your regrets.”
I was there in the Sydney Olympic Stadium on that cool evening. Me and 112,000 others,all crammed in to watch Cathy Freeman carry the hopes of an entire nation.
Justice cannot be colour-blind,but we are not America and our streets,thankfully,are not battlegrounds.
It is hard to be Australian in weeks like this,when Australia remembers its glorious Captain Cook.
It's time to hear some hard truths,writes the maker of The Australian Dream,the documentary that confronts the racist treatment of Adam Goodes
To those who worry the recent High Court decision will be misused by opponents of constitutional recognition,I say it is better to aim high and raise Australia with us.
The idea of Australia isn’t big enough - but it can be enlarged.
The Australian Dream is a film about us,about our nation;a nation founded on an idea that the Indigenous people of this continent were invisible.
The Minister for Indigenous Australians is attempting to defy history - again. It's looking like a forlorn hope,but he's invoking the triumph of 1967.
Hopes the Hong Kong protests will light the spark of democracy in China are liberal fantasies.
Indigenous leadership will have to reframe the argument for recognition,rights and justice.