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[on the Australian Republican Movement] I think the more significant issue is - the Republican Movement has got to get its act together. Because I think that there is a legitimate criticism that it's become too captured by the wealthy, by the Eastern Seaboard, by media elites and all the rest of it.

[on Aboriginal suppression of child abuse] I'm very troubled by the idea that we're having this debate that 'Oh, child abuse happens everywhere' or 'Children get raped everywhere'. One case like this is not ok, and there are clearly more cases than one in Alice Springs. And so, I find myself very troubled by this debate where people seem to want to minimise the sexual assault of children. Or act as if it happens everywhere, and somehow that makes it ok.