Andrew Forrest

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“You don't try and put rockets under prime ministers.”

“I happen to be a big believer in home ownership. I'm also a big believer that if someone wants to have a crack at the mining industry in Port Hedland, then they should be able to collect their... benefits in Port Hedland even though they are from Alice Springs. It should be mobile.”

“You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.”

“I will always put family first. Every time I haven't, I have regretted it and apologised.”

“We are not about creating a Forrest dynasty, we're about helping others.”

“I don't see why, if you look at how the Australian culture and psyche is, that we can't be amongst the most generous, from the grassroots up, nations in the world.”

“There's so many politicians who have given politics a pretty poor name... their actions have been demonstrated to be part of their over-enthusiasm to get reelected.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Tax can be structured in a way that actually encourages investment in infrastructure and encourages investment in Australia from overseas.”

“What I would say is governments need assistance to run their organisations more efficiently just like businesses do.”

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

“I'd like to see the University of Western Australia and the other four or five universities in Western Australia really excel through having some of the greatest minds in the world attracted to it.”

“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.”

“If you know that something is true and just, and you give up, that's when you fail.”

“We really need to change taxation policy so that it is not skewed against owning more than one house.”