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“At 15 I auditioned for 42nd Street in Australia. Dein Perry was in that show. I actually got the job but I couldn’t do it because I was only 15. Legally I needed to have another 15-year-old to cover consecutive nights.”
“Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia.”
“When we moved to Australia in 2008, I decided to try to live off the writing.”
“I put a bushfire out. It was one of the most incredible things, terrifying. We get them a lot in Australia.”
“I don’t feel at home in New Orleans. I don’t feel at home in Austin or L.A. And I just felt immediately at home in northern Australia.”
“Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that.”
“I was scouted working at the register at McDonald’s in Melbourne, Australia. I worked there as my first job, and a guy walked in and gave me his card. I was 16. I was skeptical, but I looked it up when I got home, and it was legitimate.”
“Tax can be structured in a way that actually encourages investment in infrastructure and encourages investment in Australia from overseas.”
“Australia has always encouraged the little bloke to have a go, the Aussie battler to get up.”
“I’d like to see the University of Western Australia and the other four or five universities in Western Australia really excel through having some of the greatest minds in the world attracted to it.”
“Wealthy people in Australia tend to give, and give very quietly.”
“There are people all over Australia who use their homes as hubs that they travel from, and they encourage their indigenous people to continue to stay there.”
“Disparity is Australia’s worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to ‘close the gap.’”
“It’s always hot in Australia.”
“Australia is the place I know best.”
“When we grew up, Australia was the land of opportunity; it really was.”
“When we were younger and first starting out in Australia, we found that we sold more records by word of mouth because we were playing the bars, clubs, and small places and building a following. And as we got bigger, we still relied a lot on word of mouth.”
“We just say things differently in Australia – like torch. I’d ask, ‘Can I have the torch?’ It seems to fall flat when I say, ‘Can I have the flashlight?’”
“I live by the sea in Australia and the weather of course is glorious all year round.”
“It was the corner sweet-shop in Australia that first piqued my interest in interior design. I went into this space with a mixture of apprehension and excitement as a child. It was filled, floor to ceiling, with the most incredible rounded glass bowls filled to the brim with bonbons, buttons, and sweets.”
“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 has an economic interest in ensuring our cities have 21st century urban rail transport to reduce traffic congestion.”
“I love Australia. I love the people there; they are fantastic. The business opportunities are endless.”
“I believe we have the potential to quadruple Australia’s food exports to Asia.”
“Australia is a resource-rich nation. We have been good at exploiting our minerals base and agricultural sector for exports.”
“Western Australia is covered by granite, the largest single piece of Achaean rock that still lies on the surface of the, of, of the Earth, that’s 2.5 to 2.9 billion years old. It’s one of the most ancient and intact bits of the Earth’s crust.”
“I love Australia! I got a boot thrown at me there.”
“I don’t think there’s been that many indigenous players in Australia.”
“The support we get in Australia is phenomenal.”
“I love all kinds of insects, and I’ve heard Australia has some really interesting bugs.”
“I thought I would come to Australia and learn to surf. Instead, I learned to walk.”
“Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.”
“We had to leave Australia to become international stars.”
“You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.”
“I was born in 1951 in Kalgoorlie, a prosperous mining town 370 miles east of Perth, Western Australia. Kalgoorlie was a gold rush town which sprang up in the desert after the Irishman Paddy Hannan struck gold there in 1892.”
“Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.”
“If Australia finds it has a strong Australian dollar, and it has higher unemployment, then it would have to respond, and that would either be by increasing domestic demand or by weakening its own currency.”
“I did ‘Quigley Down Under,’ which is quite deliberately placed in Australia, which is a Tom Selleck, Alan Rickman, Laura San Giacomo film from ’88, I want to say.”
“Let me give you a little Mendelsohn 101: I came up in television in the early- to mid- 1980s in Australia.”
“I actually built my own dining table back home in Australia. It’s a secret hobby of mine that I weirdly find transfixing.”
“The one thing that nobody else in the world can touch is the coffee in Australia.”
“As a bowler, you want to go and bowl in helpful conditions in South Africa, England, and Australia. But it is also important to bowl in the right areas, and they differ from bowler to bowler, depending on conditions and the opposition.”
“The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.”
“Australia’s economic future depends upon getting smarter. This means investing in the skills and knowledge of our workforce.”
“I love having my birthday at Australia Zoo.”
“There are better alternatives… Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.”
“Australia can no longer afford to go down the path of confrontation and fragmentation which has embittered and disfigured so many aspects of the national life.”
“As an outsider, you don’t think of Australia as being old-fashioned – it’s only when you’ve been here for a period of time when you realise there are issues.”
“And then once in Australia, I really hit the weights hard.”
“I found myself drawn to the remote Kimberley region of Australia – in the far Northwest corner of the country – our last frontier. I still can’t explain why. I kept coming back over many years and started shooting material.”
“I found myself drawn to the remote Kimberley region of Australia – in the far Northwest corner of the country – our last frontier.”
“In Australia, we cling on to whatever culture we have. We’re such a multicultural country.”
“Australians have a free spirit and an ability to think outside the box, and that is why I like Australia so much.”
“Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined.”
“I’m sure that there are places in the deserts in Australia that could be similar to where we might want to go on Mars.”
“There’s something about Australia that feels prehistoric.”
“I know netball is the number one female sport in Australia, but hockey also offers a lot.”
“Australia is a remarkable country with incredible technical and physical resources and a capacity to be a world leader in renewables.”
“There’s not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia.”
“There is so much talent in Australia.”
“I tend to use really basic creams, and I like to put an oil on, like an emu oil from Australia. It’s from the emu, and it’s really nourishing. I prefer an oil to a cream.”
“I’m from Australia, where the film industry is potent but small.”
“Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner.”
“South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections.”
“I’m an only child, and I’m very, very close with my parents, who actually live in Australia.”
“Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude.”
“If it wasn’t for my dad, I would never have known about pentathlon, because it’s not popular at all in Australia.”
“We were living in California, and it just wasn’t conducive for the lifestyle that we wanted with kids. Los Angeles is tricky to get around, there’s paparazzi to deal with, and I had this feeling that I just wanted to move back to Australia.”
“Australia has a thing where apparently it’s fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.”
“I feel really qualified to write about Australia.”
“In Australia, I’m built up as this comedy hero, which was never my intention.”
“Well, I think women across Australia, particularly, are a bit fed up with this constant attack and belittling of women in politics, and particularly the role of a female as a prime minister.”
“My grandfather was like Australia’s Tom Jones.”
“I feel I am promoting the sport well in Australia with what I’m doing on an international level.”
“I grew up in Sydney, Australia, and I started doing acting classes when I was in eighth grade.”
“When I was in Australia, I had three different agents in three different years, and I didn’t have one audition. They were good agents; I just never had one audition that was the right stuff.”
“My mom is Italian, and her whole family still lives in Italy. My dad is Australian, and his family lives in Australia, so we were raised there.”
“The arrival of thousands of Muslim infiltrators to Israeli territory is a clear threat to the state’s Jewish identity. The refugees’ place is not among us, and the initiative to transfer them to Australia is the right and just solution.”
“I love Australia; it’s such an outdoor life.”
“I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.”
“I had always been fascinated by the whole idea that Australia was this different ecology and that when rabbits and prickly pears and other things from Europe were introduced into Australia, they ran amok.”
“I spent seven years in clubs in England, Australia, etc. Not all comedians cross over to sell out in a theatre.”
“Victoria is proudly the multicultural capital of Australia; we have a diverse, harmonious community.”
“Tony Abbott is the Prime Minister of Australia. Tony Abbott will be coming to Victoria on a regular basis.”
“In Australia, there just weren’t strong roles for actors of colour. I was often being asked to turn up for commercials with a ghetto blaster on my shoulder. I thought, ‘Are we in the ’60s?’”
“I’m real connected with Australia, you heard? I gotta come up there, man.”
“I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less.”
“Since 1955, the U.K. has been part of an intelligence-sharing arrangement with the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Intelligence-sharing is, in itself, commonplace.”
“I have always been attracted to Australians and Australia.”
“At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from ‘the bush’ could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.”
“Being from Australia, I’ve never even touched a gun. It’s so not a part of our culture.”
“I absolutely love working in Australia. Overseas is a lot tougher – it’s really hard to break into campaigns over there.”
“I’ve been to Australia several times, and I just like the earthiness; it’s part of the culture. That’s a really good vibe to be around.”
“There’s a lot of exaggerated talk about CAFTA, but it’s actually a fairly routine trade agreement. Although it involves fairly small nations, they’re still more important trade partners than places like Australia or many other larger nations.”
“Messi is the same player in Barcelona and Argentina, and it would be the same if he played with Australia.”
“In 1958, we decided to go to Australia. We were there for six months, and all the shows went well.”
“England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.”
“We travel a lot from Australia and deliberately route ourselves through the U.A.E. because my whole family loves the place.”
“Australia is so influenced by America. It’s kind of in-between the U.K. and the States.”
“In Australia I was seen as somebody who did only very modern, contemporary stuff. Then as soon as I went overseas I did two period pieces so it was like, ‘When are you going to get out of the corsets?’ And I was thinking I just got into them!”
“All I was looking for is to be successful. I had the opportunity with Australia, with what it provided for me economically.”
“I was in Australia for many years. And the system there is a two-party system and the government changes from time to time.”
“I believe in a big Australia. I am an advocate for an ambitious immigration program.”
“It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.”
“Through the Young Men’s Christian Association and principally in Australia and North America, as well as in South America, I came into contact with families of these countries.”
“Most of the available Indian films in Australia are Bollywood. I did not watch them. In my early days, I watched Satyajit Ray’s ‘Apu Trilogy,’ which was a beautiful take on social realism.”
“I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.”
“I want to be part of the team that wins a Test series in England and Australia.”
“I’ve flown halfway around the world to kiss a girl. I jumped on a plane and flew to Australia.”
“I think England will win a Test. My concern is Australia will probably win two.”
“I don’t like the ocean. I’m not a natural swimmer, even though I come from Australia. That’ a terrible thing to say.”
“Part of my plan was not only to introduce all useful animals that I possibly could into this part of Australia, but also the most valuable plants of every description.”
“I love to fish offshore for billfish, and have fished all over for them from the Bahamas, St. Thomas, Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico to the Texas gulf. I haven’t made it to Australia yet, but someday I’m going.”
“I may not have trekked through the galaxies in reality. But I have trekked all over this planet: Australia, Asia, Latin America, Europe.”
“I’ve given away tens of millions of dollars over the years – probably to almost every charity in Australia.”
“The cost to do business in Australia is higher, and the lack of scale is a part of that – Australia is a very small market compared to the U.S.”
“If a company in Australia has to pay tax and the other one doesn’t, of course it’s a disadvantage.”
“I really want to go to Greece. I want to go to Australia.”
“Australia has produced amazing costume designers that are unheralded.”
“Australia is much more liberal in accepting de facto relationships than the U.S.”
“I took part in two ‘Leverage’ conventions. Fans fly in from as far as Russia and Australia. It’s expensive to attend.”
“The land and agricultural industry is the backbone of Australia, and we need to foster the industry that provides our country with so much.”
“The millionaires and billionaires who chose to invest in Australia are actually those who most help the poor and our young. This secret needs to be spread widely.”
“If a special economic zone worked as I do believe it would in the North, then hopefully we could extend it further south. It could certainly have benefits for an even wider area of Australia.”
“I opposed bad policies like any responsible citizen and business can. The carbon tax and the mining tax were both bad policies that, combined, worked to make Australia more over-regulated and less cost competitive.”
“The Territory has more than 200 trillion cubic feet of gas: potentially enough gas to power Australia for more than 200 years.”
“I was eight when we came to Australia. It was five amazing weeks onboard this ship – it was the Northern Star.”
“The English probably do that wordplay kind of humour and whimsy better than anyone, and I’ve always felt that my writing goes more to that than what I did when I came to Australia.”
“Well, there have been periods in the past when prime ministers of Australia and New Zealand were at each others’ throats publicly and frequently. That’s not productive at all.”
“Well, we don’t think for a moment that either the U.S. or Australia are out to damage the New Zealand economy, but if there were a sustained period in which they had a free-trade agreement and New Zealand didn’t have that same arrangement with the States, that could be both trade- and investment-distorting.”
“I used to feel an obligation to invent things. I felt I was a failure because I didn’t do massive great novels about Australia or the outback or something. I just don’t feel that any more.”
“I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States.”
“On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England’s account.”
“Contemporary bands often will do tour-only releases pressed and sold only in Australia. Crikey!”
“’Legality’ is a mad phrase to use when it comes to the founding of nations. Australia was founded on illegality. For the Americans to go in and dispossess the American Indians was illegal.”
“I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don’t have a distinctive Australian food, so we have food from everywhere all around the world. We’re very multicultural, so we grew up with lots of different types of food.”
“I’m a big goofball, you know. Don’t tell anyone that, but I’m a big goofball. In Australia we call it a dag.”
“I got hooked on espresso when I visited Italy at 18, but these days I prefer a ‘flat white.’ It’s like a small latte with less milk – they’re popular in Australia.”
“I’m so used to Australian films not getting a release outside Australia.”
“We don’t really watch basketball in Australia.”
“In the past, when we toured countries like Australia or South Africa, we struggled, but we also got to learn a lot, and we learnt to cope with pressure.”
“It’s always special playing in Australia and New Zealand.”
“I wrote my first full book when I was fourteen, and that was ‘Obernewtyn.’ It was also the first book I had published. It was accepted by the first publisher I sent it to, and it was short listed for Children’s Book of the Year in the older readers category in Australia.”
“Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I’m an optimist, so I like to think we’ve progressed in some ways – in Australia, we get equal pay.”
“I do have friends in Australia who now refer to me as ‘Hollywood Jack.’”
“My brothers live in Australia and don’t really know about Bollywood.”
“I’ve been to India, Jordan, South Africa, Namibia, Senegal, Australia, Madagascar, Oman, The States, and a lot of countries in Europe, just to visit… I wanted to make music to connect all of these influences, and make a multicultural music with these experiences.”
“I remember my first meeting with Alastair Cook clearly. The entire Lancashire side, some of them pretty mild-mannered, really laid into him. He’d just scored a double-hundred for Essex against Australia in a warm-up match before the 2005 Ashes. For some reason, we all assumed he must be really arrogant.”
“I would like a better record here in Australia but I would like a better record in every country.”
“When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth.”
“With Outlook bikers in Australia, if you’ve got a little emblazoned thing that’s got ‘one percent’ on it, that means you’re one percent of the population and a dangerous criminal. If it’s ’99,’ it means you’re kind of a nice recreational biker. If it’s ‘zero percenter,’ it just shows you’re a total deadbeat.”
“Per capita, I would say that Australia has more biomimetic projects going than many other countries I’ve been to.”
“Australia is the most isolated continent.”
“There are no real guidelines or maps in Australia as to how to write a show, whereas in Hollywood it’s where the TV industry is created and there’s a lot of work that goes into development.”
“Coming from New Zealand and Australia is like a tough pre-school for Hollywood. And having been on ‘Neighbours,’ even though the agents I met with hadn’t seen it, they knew it’s where Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce had come from. It was a foot in the door.”
“I was in hospital between the Grand Prix in Australia and Malaysia because of a lack of water and a little bit of lack of everything. I was very weak.”
“The floods and fires and storms and droughts that Australia has suffered in the last few years have left no doubt in many Australians’ minds about just how much is a stake in a super-heated world.”
“What is likely to vanish – or be transformed beyond recognition – are many of the things we think of when we think of Australia: the barrier reef, the koalas, the sense of the country as a land of almost limitless natural resources.”
“Australia has suffered a decade of drought, epic floods, a Category 5 cyclone, and a plague of locusts. But just because Aussies have the biggest carbon footprint in the world, it doesn’t mean they’re stupid.”
“I love Australia, and I especially love those rugby players.”
“Australia’s beautiful, but I’m not too into Australian culture.”
“I’m definitely Australian and wouldn’t have it any other way. I’ve been formed as an athlete in Australia.”
“We have incredible record labels in Australia, but sometimes they have a preconceived idea of how to do things.”
“I love coming to Australia. It’s one of my favourite places.”
“The markets where we’ve got real good presence are the older, more mature markets like Australia, and Western Europe – where we’ve only got 6,000 stores, compared to the US with 13,000.”
“When I came to Australia, it was like heaven.”
“WWE is a global juggernaut; it is the pinnacle. It is a global entity. You have superstars from Australia, China, Japan.”
“When you play a gig in Poland or Australia, or you play a gig in Toledo, they all clap at the same parts of the show. They’re clapping for the solos in the exact same way.”
“Australia is breathtakingly beautiful, and I can’t wait to visit again.”
“I did five movies in Australia, I did three films in Germany, this is the fourth film I’ve done here in the UK, I’ve done a bunch of films in Canada.”
“People forget that a huge proportion of our jobs still depend on agricultural production in Australia so of course there are exports. That’s easily overlooked.”
“I love the fans here in Australia.”
“I’ve been arguing this for months. This is not our war. This is not a war we should be in. Australia’s better spending its time negotiating with North Korea.”
“Australia will always be closer to the U.S. than she is to China because our values and political traditions are much closer.”
“Terrorists oppose nations such as the United States and Australia not because of what we have done but because of who we are and because of the values that we hold in common.”
“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 didn’t know the books and certainly didn’t know the tragic origin story of Mary Poppins in 1906 Australia.”
“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.”
“It doesn’t really seem any different anywhere. I’d say it seems like we’re biggest in Australia. It’s just that we’ve always been this underground band and for some reason in the last month has been starting to go overground.”
“You can learn a lot when you play in a little town in Holland or Western Australia, and you learn different things than you would learn playing a big city.”
“I love working in Australia. I’m happiest when I get to do it.”
“While Melbourne and Sydney fight about who wears Australia’s cultural crown, Canberra just gets on with it.”
“Here in Australia we do get impacted by global economic events. But we should have some confidence that our economy has got strong underlying fundamentals.”
“The strongest initiative that government can take to ensure Australia is prepared for population ageing, is to maintain a strong economy, and a secure nation.”
“Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.”
“Well they’re very, very genuine concerns at present as to the status of the 800 people who are to be sent by Australia to Malaysia. There’s concern about the status of asylum seekers in Malaysia generally, but there’s concern about the status of the 800 to be sent.”
“My point is this, the Government made this decision to ban totally beef exports into Indonesia, even to compliant abattoirs and this will have enormous consequences for the beef cattle industry across Australia.”
“Tobacco companies are legally operating entities in Australia. If the Government thinks that they should not make donations to political parties, well then they should ban them operating as legally structured entities in Australia.”
“You need to be mentally and physically very strong to go and perform in Australia.”
“Playing Australia, of course, is always challenging.”
“There are a lot of places that I know extremely well. Like, if I were to visit Sydney, Australia, I’d feel very comfortable there. I’m very comfortable in many, many cities.”
“I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.”
“The Nauru files lifts the secrecy surrounding Australia’s hidden detention regime for asylum seekers through vivid reporting and the words of the guards and officials on the island themselves.”
“People often expect that I should know a lot of things because I’m black. I don’t really explain it to people, but it’s like, I’m from Australia, my Mum’s Aussie, and I grew up with five other Aussie brothers and sisters.”
“We moved to Australia for two years though and that was a little bit tough trying to fit in.”
“I think I had about a month off when I broke my rib in Australia, which was magnificent.”
“As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians – the oldest continuing culture in human history. On behalf of the Australian Parliament, this year I offered an apology to indigenous Australians for the wrongs they had suffered in the past.”
“We have a prime minister, I’m the foreign minister, I’m trying to get on with the job of doing Australia’s foreign policy.”
“If Australia wants an effective United Nations, we have to be comprehensively, not marginally, engaged.”
“It is a high honour to be elected Prime Minister of Australia.”
“The Australia to 2050 report highlights something that is well understood by South Australians, that infrastructure plays a key role in long-term economic expansion.”
“To be a member of the Labor Party is to be an optimist – optimistic about the future of Australia, optimistic about the ability of government to make a difference.”
“My friends in Australia, they grew up with me acting, so they’re used to it.”
“The Raves of Thrones parties started in Australia and has since spread all over the world. However, no one does it like the Aussies.”
“Australia is a wild place.”
“When it applies to the Olympics and making a decision, I have to claim Australia as my country.”
“So far, my trip in Australia has been absolutely lovely – wonderful country, wonderful people… And then there’s Melbourne.”
“I think, in Australia, the no-go areas wouldn’t be as bad as in Europe because they’ve got less mass immigration, but I’ve heard some pretty bizarre stories about riots, attacks.”
“If you asked someone who was a Maori about how they felt about how they were treated in Australia or New Zealand, you’ll get an answer. They’ll have something to tell you. And you might not like what you hear.”
“I’d really like to go Sydney. I’ve been to Australia a few times, but I have never been there.”
“How comedic are squirrels? We don’t have squirrels in Australia. The first time I saw a squirrel was at a meeting at Disney.”
“Southern people remind me a lot of Australia.”
“One of the nicest things about receiving the accolade of Australia is that, previously, the knighthood was historically for what was termed ‘the establishment.’ Now, this is an accolade for somebody who comes from a working-class background. Someone whose father was a truck driver and decided to buy a truck.”
“The people of Australia would be staggered to learn that Australia has no national development plan.”
“The Menzies Government, by its participation in the plans for the development of other nations, can see the virtue of planning for them but apparently cannot see the virtue of a plan for Australia.”
“I don’t look to celebrities for style anymore because I’ve learned the chain of command. They are being dressed by a stylist who’s getting inspiration from a 16-year-old kid running the streets of Melbourne, Australia. Once I learned that chain of command, I just started taking it to the streets.”
“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 would love to make a film in the outback or in Papua New Guinea, in Port Moresby. I know that it’s not in Australia, but it’s not too far.”
“We have a big fan base in Australia, but none of us have been before.”
“I really miss Australia. I miss eating fish n’ chips, oh my God, and Australian pies and the wonderful corner shops.”
“There’s a level of ease that comes with working in Australia that can be missed working in other places.”
“Australia is not a safe place.”
“I do not believe we can effectively move Australia to a lower emission economy, which is what we need to do if we’re going to make a contribution to a global reduction in greenhouse gases, without putting a price on carbon.”
“Anyone who thinks it’s smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.”
“But who knows, some years from now if there’s a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I’m sure Australia would be part of it.”
“I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.”
“In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.”
“And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.”
“Aborigines are not just the oldest race in Australia; they are the oldest race on the planet. They look like dinosaurs.”
“Of course we have Queen Elizabeth as head of state, but in many ways we are a kind of republic. We don’t have royals in Australia, so it was kind of unusual to run into those kind of people. But aside from that it was quite ordinary.”
“It’s an individual waste and it’s an economic waste for Australia not to recognise dyslexia.”
“There was a band in Australia named Midnight Oil, and they were a very, very political, and they literally hit you over the head with a hammer. U2 sometimes can hit you over the head with a rubber hammer.”
“Do liberals think nations such as Canada, Japan, Britain and Australia are pursuing ‘racist’ immigration policies? All have had merit-based immigration systems in place for decades.”
“One of the reasons why Australia and Canada have support for migration is because they control the numbers.”
“I’ve been to Australia once before, and we went to Auckland, New Zealand. We were there for a few days. It was absolutely beautiful, so I’m very excited to go back there.”
“We can go to Australia and play to 30-to-40,000. We can do that in certain places in the States, but not everywhere.”
“In 1969, we emigrated to Australia. It was a big change. The heat, the flies, and the completely different tinned meats. The shock was so great, I stopped reading books for nearly a year.”
“Anything to do with any new form of tax, like consumption tax in Japan, carbon tax in Australia, these are big issues that cannot be easily decided.”
“I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn’t a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.”
“When I was about 14, my family emigrated from England to Australia, and we decided to stop in Bali on the way through.”
“When I was 23, I moved to Australia to be with this 43-year-old con artist I fell in love with.”
“It makes me sick to my stomach what Australia Day has become.”
“It’s always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia.”
“Most people travel outside of Australia. They don’t realise what we’ve got.”
“Every man’s got to find themselves, and I found myself in bloody Western Australia, of all places – there was as far away as I could.”
“Notoriously, in 1975, Murdoch abused his position as a newspaper owner to support a plot that ousted the democratically elected prime minister of Australia, Gough Whitlam, who had dared to wander away from the mogul’s path.”
“Julian Assange is self-consciously an individual. He thinks in his own way, primarily as a physicist, having studied pure maths and physics at university in Australia where he grew up.”
“My maternal grandmother was the longest-lived of my grandparents. She migrated to Australia in her 80s and lived into her 90s. It was great that she got to be part of my adult life.”
“I think at times I get treated a bit unfairly, but then so do other athletes in Australia, and I feel like things can change.”
“I truly love Australia; I miss Aussie kids and their attitude!”
“I’d love to come to Australia. I’d love to walk about the Sydney Opera House.”
“After going to Australia, it’s hard to go anywhere after that. I want to move there. I’m obsessed with it.”
“Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia.”
“There’s a rumor going around that I’m Miss Goody-two-shoes from Australia. Well, that’s a laugh. I’m really Miss Goody-two-shoes from England!”
“Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.”
“I have spent a lot of time out in Australia, and so I have a good little fan base out there.”
“Even if you go to Australia today, it’s very much like visiting a state you haven’t been to.”
“It’s got more cosmopolitan, and it’s lost its uniqueness, but Australia is still a great place.”
“I think Australia has to be a country which has the ‘Welcome’ sign out.”
“Didgeridoo was something I picked up while I was on tour in Australia with Peter Gabriel in ’93. I found out later that it’s only meant to be played by men.”
“If politicians continue to promote separatism in Australia, they should not continue to hold their seats in this parliament. They are not truly representing all Australians, and I call on the people to throw them out.”
“The two things that I miss most when living out of Australia are the bush and the Pacific coast, especially fishing in the surf at night!”
“Australia is my lens. I cannot see the world any other way.”
“In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents.”
“And living in Australia I am relatively well off.”
“I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months.”
“Certainly the Australians were buried in Korea. But I think that from Vietnam on, all the killed were brought home to America or to Australia, in our case.”
“I suppose most crime writing is urban. There’s not a lot… certainly not in Australia, people don’t often set books in the countryside.”
“A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia.”
“In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.”
“The best sheep breeders are in Australia and New Zealand.”
“I don’t want to think much about my injury in Australia. That phase is history.”
“It was my wish to play in the challenging conditions in Australia. I love the bounce there.”
“Australia is on my to-do list – I have never been, and everyone says how wonderful it is.”
“There’s very little bohemia in Australia and it’s one of the things I miss most about not living in Europe.”
“Because in Australia there really isn’t a lot to do. There aren’t a lot of opportunities.”
“I come from the rougher side of Sydney. I don’t know whether you can compare them to the projects, but in Australia, it definitely is the rougher side.”
“In Australia, I wrote lots of little plays and put them on, and then I worked on a few different TV shows, like the Australian equivalent of ‘SNL.’ I would write and perform all of my characters.”
“I wrote my own play, ‘The Westie Monologues,’ about where I’m from in Australia, and it was very successful. From that, I started getting offers from television.”
“I’m delighted to have been accepted into the U.S.A. with my fishing program after its success in Australia and throughout the U.K., Europe, and Asia.”
“’The Bradshaws’ is the appropriately inappropriate English title given to an enigma – some hundreds of thousands of mysterious rock art paintings scattered through the wilds of the Kimberley, an area larger than Germany in the remote, scarcely populated northwest of Australia.”
“It may be that the carbon tax is the final chapter in the strange death of Labor Australia.”
“For much of the latter part of the 20th century, Australia seemed to be opening up to something large and good. It believed itself a generous country, the land of the ‘fair go.’”
“Under Howard, federal government support for black Australia slowly dried up. Services were slashed, native title restricted.”
“In Australia, the Man Booker is sometimes seen as something of a chicken raffle.”
“Turkey, Australia, and Japan are three of my top destinations.”
“Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.”
“I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.”
“Australia is so entrenched in rock n’roll and bands, and that’s just the way Australia is.”
“Mmm, well that whole thing about having to look tough has never left Australia.”
“When America stopped importing from China, China stopped importing from the rest of the world. This affects Asian countries as well as Australia, Brazil, and other suppliers of raw materials.”
“I’ve played the leads in two British TV series. I’ve done a bunch of mini-series. Everybody in Australia is a bit in awe of BBC. I’ve worked for there, and that was a great experience.”
“Australia is the same size as the U.S., but it’s much smaller in terms of population. I’ve been working in the States off and on since the ’80s, and the first time I played a lead here was in ’91, I think.”
“With my experience with Metallica, I’ve already surfed Portugal, Morocco, and all over Australia with Kirk.”
“Everyone thinks Australia and New Zealand MMA fighters don’t have that wrestling base, whereas a lot of Americans and other countries have, with them being able to do wrestling at high-school levels.”
“I was born in New Zealand, and I was raised in Australia, and I’m very proud of that.”
“I didn’t actually have a prom. In Australia, we call them ‘socials,’ which is hilarious. I did always find them pretty awkward, because I went to an all-girls school.”
“Camels are still trained in Alice Springs for tourist jaunts and for occasional sale to Australia’s zoos.”
“I did well as an actor in Australia, and then Paramount invited me over… to have a look at me.”
“This book that I just wrote is going to be coming out very soon to Australia.”
“Australia is my favorite place to visit. The fans are great, and the sport of bodybuilding is huge.”
“I got heckled off stage in Western Australia at a music festival once.”
“Thankfully, Australia has emerged from its inauspicious colonial beginnings to become a proud nation, a nation that overcame those primeval prejudices.”
“I’d move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.”
“I’ve been voted one of Australia’s 50 national treasures. I’ve even had my face on an Australian stamp – the only non-Australian to do so, apart from the Queen, of course.”
“I don’t really take vacations because when I’m working, it’s usually in a far-flung, exotic place somewhere. But I have a farm in Australia I like to go back to when I’m at home and not working.”
“For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.”
“My mum has lived in Australia for 22 years now, and we have a rocky relationship. But at the same time it’s one I want to maintain. I need her to be my mum. The relationship took a lot of rebuilding.”
“I auditioned for ‘Avatar’ in Australia. It was a ‘blind’ audition. I didn’t know what the movie was about and whom it was for.”
“I went back to Australia to do a show called ‘The Beautiful Lie,’ which is a retelling of ‘Anna Karenina’ in a six-part mini-series – a modern, contemporary version.”
“Australia’s migrant communities have built the country. It has been one of the key pillars of Australia’s prosperity over generations.”
“Operation Sovereign Borders has been one of Australia’s greatest national security policy successes.”
“All economies are structured differently – the tax systems, the regulatory systems, the federal systems – and that is as true of Australia and the United States as it is of Australia and Germany and the U.K.”
“The wickets I have played on for my whole career, most of them have been to suit fast bowlers in Australia.”
“I actually started out as a writer and then converted to illustration because I realised that there was a dearth of good illustrators in genre fiction, at least in Australia at that time.”
“I still remember when I debuted for India in One-dayers and got out on zero against Australia only.”
“Japan and Australia share the universal values of freedom, democracy, the rule of law, and fundamental human rights.”
“We should all live in central or southwest Queensland in Australia, which is geologically stable. Or Kansas or Nebraska, because it’s relatively geologically stable. I am sure there is no emergency plan for Topeka.”
“I was actually born in Belgium and lived there until I was 11, then moved to Australia for a year, then moved to New Zealand, so I only lived there from when I was 12 to 18.”
“I wanted the collection for Target to reinterpret all the must-haves of Stella McCartney for winter and to make my designs more accessible to a wider audience in Australia.”
“Canada, Australia and New Zealand have apologised for their treatment of native peoples.”
“Yeah, I think it’s an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling.”
“I don’t pay attention to Australia, mate.”
“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.”
“Coming from Australia and playing rugby, you just think that soccer is a bit soft, but I’ll tell you what – it’s not. It’s rough as guts. It’s great.”
“Ironically, I find it harder to get a foothold in Australia than I do in the U.S. When I was in Australia, I struggled. It can be a bit of a closed shop; it can be hard for a newcomer to break in, whereas in the U.S., it has much more of an open-door policy, and they will give anyone a shot.”
“I definitely love Australia. I’ve been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.”
“When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called ‘extreme’ shark diving because even though we were in cages, we literally could touch the sharks swimming by. They were huge and I’m terrified of sharks. Then I went to a wildlife park and held kangaroos. That was nice.”
“Once again our cricketers have flattered to deceive in Australia.”
“I am still very fond of Australia, but my life is now in Los Angeles.”
“I try to get back to Australia as much as possible.”
“For me, it was two years before I fed a big croc when I came to Australia.”
“Australia and New Zealand have traditionally shared very close links, yet there are things that set us apart and make us unique – Australia’s wildlife experience being one of them.”
“It doesn’t take much to get a high profile in Australia.”
“I got to travel to Australia and I got to main event at Korakuen Hall.”
“So nonetheless given the importance that was placed on sport in Australia, I wanted to be part of that scene, particularly since I had felt very strongly in my early schooling being marginalised even in the Catholic school.”
“Australia integrated the – brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places – in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south.”
“Way of life in Australia focuses more on the outdoors.”
“Although we had been led to believe our mission was suicidal, Russia’s intrigue was irresistible. Almost twice the size of Australia, it spans 11 time zones from the Baltic to the Pacific.”
“I lived at home while attending the University of Western Australia in Perth, while doing a gap year and – partly – while attending the Academy of Performing Arts on the other side of town.”
“My granddad had a 1,500-acre hobby farm that he had built up from scratch in Western Australia, so my siblings and I spent our childhoods going there a lot.”
“I was rejected by every agent in Australia when I was starting out. No one would represent me, because I didn’t fit into a particular box, and I wasn’t a trained musician or performer, but history has perhaps proven that perhaps I have something to give.”
“They knew who I was in Australia in 2006, but not to a great extent. Now, with the momentum of a second World Cup, it has gone crazy.”
“I was in Australia in 1983 and did a stunt in a lion’s cage.”
“I loved Australia. I was very successful there.”
“I love London. I love the U.K., but if I was going to live anywhere else on Earth, it would be Australia.”
“I was fortunate enough to coach the U.S. Olympic team in Australia.”
“I guess in Australia every film is sort of an indie film because there are no studios.”
“Once people come to Australia, they join the team.”
“My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure.”
“Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted asylum they could have claimed that in any of the countries through which they’d passed.”
“If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I’d want to come to Australia.”
“I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society.”
“I don’t have a place anywhere but Australia; I just don’t spend much time there.”
“Australia is one of my favorite places to play – it’s a crazy experience.”
“If I can just play, it doesn’t matter where we are… Japan, Australia, or here in the neighborhood.”
“I went to Australia and did a three day hike with my fiance through the wilderness, which was nice.”
“Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I’d like to see it.”
“Native people – about two-thirds of the uranium in the United States is on indigenous lands. On a worldwide scale, about 70 percent of the uranium is either in Aboriginal lands in Australia or up in the Subarctic of Canada, where native people are still fighting uranium mining.”
“In Australia, getting an audition can be a rarity. There just aren’t as many opportunities.”
“My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia.”
“In Australia, kids play in American accents.”
“Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that’s not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?”
“When the first humans reached Australia about 45,000 years ago, they quickly drove to extinction 90% of its large animals. This was the first significant impact that Homo sapiens had on the planet’s ecosystem. It was not the last.”
“That’s one of the things I miss most about Australia – the countryside.”
“A lot of my friends are in Australia, and it’s definitely nice to get back there.”
“Growing up in Australia, space exploration wasn’t something I was too aware of.”
