This is the welfare generation, and that is incredibly sad. That will be judged in history as being far worse, I believe, than the stolen generation, because we are literally losing thousands and thousands of our indigenous brothers and sisters to the effects of welfare – drugs, gunja, low morale, alcoholism. I see it everyday and it can stop. The solution is education, training and a guaranteed opportunity.
If you know that something is true and just, and you give up, thats when you fail.
I would say to young entrepreneurs and budding philanthropists - are you giving to feel good or do good?
You remove heavy metals out of the ground and you turn that into tables, and houses and bridges and dreams for people in the developing world. I love doing that.
Get out of bed, go to school, stick at school. Make it happen for yourself because those opportunities are waiting.
Australia has always encouraged the little bloke to have a go, the Aussie battler to get up.
You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.
Im never looking at life in terms of legacy.
I dont necessarily go to church every week, but I am a Christian, and I believe in God and Jesus Christ.
What I would say is governments need assistance to run their organisations more efficiently just like businesses do.
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.
When youre asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.
The most generous part of your philanthropy could be the time you put in to procure the same results and same outcomes and same returns you demand in business.
Id 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.
You don't try and put rockets under prime ministers.
