塔州前州长我们怀念您。塔州需耍您，塔州人民需要.您。您和諧，和平，公正，包容的文明精神.，尤如一只神乌，永遠飞翔在塔州的上空，永遠飞翔在塔州人民的心中。
"已故的州長吉姆.貝肯先生在1999年於澳大利亚广播公司（ABC）塔斯马尼亚分台谈及他对2020年社会愿景的见解。
"……我认为这非常重要，因为它实际上是关于我们社区的一种表态。我认为，我们在上世纪90年代所做的事情，这不仅仅是我的政府，还包括之前的政府，整个和解的过程实际上表明了塔斯马尼亚人希望成为一个包容的社区，一个认可我们历史并愿意作为现代社会共同生活的社区，并将其推进到可以被视为世界领袖的阶段。
"这使我们成为一个更加凝聚的社区。它使我们成为一个每位塔斯马尼亚人都觉得他们可以做出贡献的社区。我认为有时倒回到80年代和90年代有点困难，但在那个时候，塔斯马尼亚有许多社区中被边缘化的群体，他们无法充分发挥自己的作用。我认为，我们社区能够在2020年说出没有人被排除在外，每个人都有发言权，并被视为我们社区的一个有价值的组成部分，这是一个伟大的成就。"
The late Jim Bacon speaks in 1999 of his vision for society on ABC's Tasmania in 2020
Well I think it's very significant because it is really a statement about what sort of community we are. And I think what we did back in the late 90s and it wasn't just my government, it was governments prior to ours, but the whole process of reconciliation really said about Tasmanians that we want to be an inclusive community, one that recognises our history and that we are prepared as a modern society to not only work better at living together, but to actually advance that to the stage where we can be seen as a world leader.
It's made us a very much more cohesive community. It's made us one where everybody in Tasmania really does feel they can contribute. And I think it's hard sometimes to remember back to the 80s and 90s, but in Tasmania in those times there were many groups in our community who were marginalised, who were prevented from playing their role to the full. And I think it is a great achievement for our community to be able to say now in 2020 that no one is excluded, that everyone gets the right to have a say and to be treated as a worthy part of our community.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-11/the-late-jim-bacon-speaks-in-1999-of-his-vision/11854786
