Australia Quotes

When he breathed, he truly was Australia’s greatest white elder and friend without peer of the original Australians.

The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.

But in practice Australia - the pluralism of Australia - sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off after coming home from school.

Trees are, after all, our largest and oldest living things. They are Australia's natural, national treasures - the true Elders of our vast continent.

We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us than Australia or Canada, that they were real places.

I want to go to Australia and take the same goofy picture of me holding a koala that everyone else takes.

Australia! I wanna see some saltwater crocodiles!

It's dead easy to die; it's the keeping on living that's hard.

Shoot straight, you bastards! Don't make a mess of it!

If I begin my book with a review of the coup, it is only to show that my abiding interests for Australia did not end with it. They shall end only with a long and fortunate life.

The last thing Australia needs right now is instability and uncertainty.

I think Australia has to be a country which has the 'Welcome' sign out.

Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.

Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner.

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

I crave the indulgence of my senses but this is countered by an interior desire that is even keener than my senses to know the meaning of things

In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailboating equipment, the gin and tonic.

I was profoundly embarrassed by it [the White Australia Policy] and did all I could to change it.

If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.

If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian.

Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper.

The best hope for Australia is the ballot box and good education.

It is in the national interest to have the Flying Kangaroo. It's in the interests of our tourism industry. It's in the interests of jobs here in Australia.

Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that.

We should not play like Australia or India or England - we should play like Sri Lanka.

What Australia was before is the fullest Australia has ever been... as created and made and valued by indigenous people. The white man came here and took it away, took it away and replaced it.

A cricket tour in Australia would be a most delightful period in one's life if one was deaf

Scientists in Australia are working on making biodegradable car parts out of hemp. This might get confusing. When someone says, roll up the window, they might mean, roll up the window!

When I was a kid in Adelaide, I dreamed of becoming No. 1 in the world, winning a grand slam and the Davis Cup for Australia.

I have always had, as I know many people have, a singular passion for Australia. I do love the sunburnt country, its ancient landscapes, its exhilarating reaches of sand and sea.

Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China.

I love Australia. My dream would be to have a place to live there and be able to commute back and forth

I've seen Australia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid.

Growing up in Australia, you never feel like you're going to live beyond that place. You wake up and you go to the beach, and you do your homework. You're just a kid.

When I was young I never believed that Australia was anything else except blessed. I thought it was a little dull when I was young, but that was 'cause I was a snob.

I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.

Australia is a lucky country run by second-rate people who share its luck.

There are many non-intellectual countries; Australia is one of the few anti-intellectual ones.

I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.

South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections.

There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life

In the end it's the big picture which changes nations and whatever our opponents may say, Australia's changed inexorably for good, for the better.

I am blessed to have been born in Australia where water sports are loved and swimmers are revered.

Australia is the most isolated continent.

Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that.

Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.

If you try to come to Australia by boat, even if we think you are the best person in the world, even if you are a Nobel Prize winning genius, we will not let you in.

I love Australia passionately. I love our landscape. It's influenced most of my work, really. Almost everything I've written is about the landscape. Trying to find, the sacred, the spiritual in it.

Representing Australia has always been a honour and a privilege, and the older and more experienced I get, the more I enjoy it.

When I have a bad day, I dream about opening up a gelato stand on the streets of Sydney, Australia. Doesn't everyone have a random escape fantasy?