Businessman

Australia has always encouraged the little bloke to have a go, the Aussie battler to get up.

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

If you haven't had a few dents in your resume, you haven't tried.

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

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 don't necessarily go to church every week, but I am a Christian, and I believe in God and Jesus Christ.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

All industry, not just the mining industry, can get out and give Aboriginal companies a chance.

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

Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'