“I don't think it is wrong, racist, immoral or anything, for a country to say 'we will decide what the cultural identity and the cultural destiny of this country will be and nobody else.”

—  John Howard

Quoted in "Howard reasserts right to decide cultural identity," The Age, 20 September 1988.

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