Andrew Forrest

I really do think I can make a contribution in helping eliminate the disparity here in Australia and doing my small bit to help eliminate slavery around the world. These are huge issues for our fellow countrymen and our fellows in the world, where slavery is growing at an alarming rate, and it needs to be arrested. ”

We do need an attitude of leadership in our government which demonstrates faith in major population centres outside of Perth. ”

Individuals and communities need to clearly tell government if they want parity for First Australians. Only this will overcome the vested interests of governments and administrators and see these practical, inexpensive solutions for what they are: a way to finally achieve results, with the strength of will from each of us. ”

I'd like to keep our kids in their schools. I'd like to keep our young men and women in jobs. ”

If you look hard at it, if you look hard at the bleeding heart attitude to always throw money at issues, throw money at problems, what you're in fact probably saying is you're exercising a prejudicism of low expectations. ”

Wherever we've gone around the world, we've found quite significant gaps: the holy texts, no matter which one you turn to, has ambiguity in it around slavery. That, we knew, was being used as justification by slavers all over the world. ”

I would say to young entrepreneurs and budding philanthropists - are you giving to feel good or do good? ”

When you're asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that. ”

Statistically after six months, if an Indigenous or non-Indigenous person has come off welfare, even long-term welfare, and has stuck in that's job for six months, then they've really broken in their own psychology the welfare reliance mentality. They're up on their own two feet. ”

My greatest love in life is to develop projects. I just get a huge kick out of that. I've been doing it since ever I could. ”