Blainey, eye on Australia Quotes

“In economics, as in politics, no national reservoir can stand the strain when everyone is turning on the taps and few are bothering to see that the catchments to the reservoir are working.”
― Geoffrey Blainey, Blainey, eye on Australia: Speeches and essays of Geoffrey Blainey

“The argument by white and black Australians that the events of 1788 are primarily to blame for the plight of many Aborigines is far too negative. The solutions which have been proposed — massive land rights, white confessions of guilt and the granting of hereditary privileges to Aborigines — essentially look backwards. Moreover, the solutions are based on a version of history which is much less valid than its exponents believe.”
― Geoffrey Blainey, Blainey, eye on Australia: Speeches and essays of Geoffrey Blainey

“Whether we like the idea or not, war has again and again been seen as the great auditor, the special testing time, of a nation's strength and fibre.”
― Geoffrey Blainey, Blainey, eye on Australia: Speeches and essays of Geoffrey Blainey