Who Do You Think That I Am?

Extract

I am delighted at the opportunity to address you today and I would like to start by quoting a section from the speech made to Aboriginal people by His Holiness, Pope John Paul II, when he visited Australia last year.

His Holiness made reference to the strength of Aboriginal culture and the need to preserve it. He chose to make an analogy between the culture of the Aboriginal people and the indomitable nature of a native Australian tree.