My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people`s sacred status, regardless of the pest.
- Steve IrwinThe children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them was just letting them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality that was in each of them.
- Phillip NoyceMost Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years earlier than on the west coast - and where 95 percent of Australians are able to live 95 percent of their lives without ever seeing an Aboriginal face.
- Phillip NoyceThe Aboriginal people are running scared as they don`t know what`s going on.
- Peter LeeHere is evidence that should prompt a sense of urgency among those responsible for aboriginal education. Low education outcomes are condemning the next generation to poverty.
- John RichardsOver 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.
- Alvin Kernan