Quotes About Australia

I travel way too much to have any pets. But if I could have one, I'd want a quokka. They're basically small kangaroos native to Western Australia.

Most of the well-developed world - Australia, Western Europe - they develop their resources base, they inventory it, they develop it, and they view it as a good source of jobs and revenue. We are a country that for too long has taken affordable energy for granted.

Australians are a passionate lot. We are also a very practical lot.

We have incredible record labels in Australia, but sometimes they have a preconceived idea of how to do things.

The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go.

I think Australia focuses on people that had a big start at home, like 'Home and Away' or 'Neighbours' graduates, and the truth is those shows are pretty white for the most part. The diverse actors go straight to the States because that is where more diverse stories and opportunities are being presented.

It was funny, when I got to Australia to The Presidents Cup, I ate about 6,000 calories.

In 1958, we decided to go to Australia. We were there for six months, and all the shows went well.

In Australia, there aren't a lot of people committed to art, so these communities form that are dedicated to music, theater, cinema, but they're very small. So, they tend to move ahead on the power of collaboration, enthusiasm and creativity.

In some ways, Australian fans are more dedicated and more enthusiastic than some of our most loyal fans in the U.S.

We travel a lot from Australia and deliberately route ourselves through the U.A.E. because my whole family loves the place.

When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth.

I'd always thought Australia was a rugby country, but football is really developing here, and Juve are extremely popular.

Do Tasmanian devils really exist?

We say less things about Australians than Australians say about us, calling me a dictator, authoritarian government.

The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals and targets. I guess I prefer that language to talking about quotas.

And I liked pluralist Australia. I got a taste for pluralist Australia. I like, I like Australians and I can't believe that they're going to go to hell because they tell a good dirty joke, you know.

Jimmy Grants is my first stop every time I go home to Australia. They make the best souvlakis you have ever tasted.

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 went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.

You talk of the mines of Australia, They've wealth in red gold, without doubt; But, ah! there is gold on the farm, boys— If only you'll shovel it out. (Chorus:) "Don't be in a hurry to go! Don't be in a hurry to go! Better risk the old farm awhile longer, Don't be in a hurry to go!

Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.

Australia, Australia, we love you from the heart. The kidneys, the liver & the giblets too. And every other part.

wish you could do something about the Australian tobacco industry,' said the Prime Minister gloomily, grinding the malodorous butt out in the ashtray.