This is a small country with limited resources. Can we afford the time spent on endless debates about ethnicity and identity?
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Opening address to the Tourism Forum at the Sheraton Resort, 7 July 2005Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi
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When we exclude part of the community, we deny ourselves the participation and contribution of those left out. We allow the possibility of conflict in some future time, neither scenario we can afford. Everyone, irrespective of ethnicity, has a contribution to make no matter how humble or small.
Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi
We spent too much time in the first half of the nineties pondering whether we had to become less European so we could become more Asian, whether we had to become less British so we could become more multicultural. We had this perpetual seminar on our national identity, contributed to overwhelmingly by the cultural dietitians. I never thought Australians had any doubt as to what their identity was. And I think we’ve moved on from all of that.
John Howard
The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations.
David Friedman
Invest your time, spend less of it, cause you simply can't afford it. Once spent, this time have you, gone will it be, somewhere in history.
Joshua Fernandez
"As a country, we have not started to see how much we can achieve as a nation and we will not have any idea of our strength if we continue to deny ourselves the opportunity to come together as one people. We have not been able to pool the resources and talent of our people and exploit them for our common good. It will continue to evade us if we continue to stress our ethnicity and group differences."
Ratu Epeli Ganilau
Madraiwiwi, Ratu Joni
Madsen, Michael
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