“The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for grante...” — Quentin Bryce Quote

“The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.”

“I've never owned a pair of jeans, but I had a fantastic denim boiler-suit and it got a lot of wearing.”

“I didn't have any Indigenous friends until I was in my 30s, and I'll always remember and be inspired by the remarkable friendship I had with Connie Bush, an outstanding Indigenous leader from Groot Eylandt on who was on the National Women's Advisory Council with me.”

“A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia.”

“Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.”

“Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.”