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Quotes About Australia

All coral in every world think of Australia the way that you and I think of Mesopotamia - it is the ancestral paradise of their civilization and they send it Valentines each February.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
They hadn't the first thing to do with inventing wormholes; it was the same pure imbecilic drooling luck that so many of the bloody things opened up just outside Aluno Prime's gravitational sphere of influence that dealt Europe a royal flush of luxury high-speed horses, butter-dispensing cows, jumper-shedding sheep, bacon-distributing pigs, and nonunionized donkeys, and Australia a full hand of fuck all.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Looking at Barbados and Australia as relatively positive examples, one societal hallmark of self-esteem seems to be an ability to both give and demand fairness, an expectation that extends from the personal to the political.
~ Gloria Steinem
I've moved to Australia, to amazing parents who gave me unconditional love, to being educated and submerged in an amazing country and society.
~ Saroo Brierley
The magnitude of discrimination and stigma faced by people with disability in Australia cannot be underestimated. People do not understand disability, and people fear what they don't understand.
~ Stella Young
It's good that people are underestimating me. I'm the guy from Down Under, and I'm going to show them what's up.
~ Joseph Parker
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.
~ Jon Crosby
Wrestling in Australia is big, but it's kind of underground.
~ Peyton Royce
At its best, Aboriginal art has been effective in translating an entire culture and the understanding of an entire continent. Indeed, the more we interpret Australia through Aboriginal eyes, through the experience of their long and epic story, the more we allow ourselves to understand the land we share.
~ Paul Keating
'Guardian Australia' will connect our Australian audience to our global community and give readers around the world a better understanding of this very significant nation.
~ Katharine Viner
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.
~ Kevin Rudd
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.
~ Ben Bernanke
My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.
~ Malcolm Turnbull
I never wanted to launch legal action, but Cricket Australia simply left me no option. James Sutherland himself said that, to an extent, I had been made 'a scapegoat.' I find that a totally unfair basis to end my career. The damage to my reputation and career has been immense, which means the chances of me getting a senior job are that much less.
~ Mickey Arthur
All Authors come from the unified countrynent known as Australia. Authors live in the future where love is external.
~ Will Advise
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.
~ Nellie Melba
I feel I am promoting the sport well in Australia with what I'm doing on an international level.
~ Daniel Ricciardo
Cricket is semi-pro for women in Australia, but the girls work damn hard, and it's credit to them to try and grow the sport.
~ Ashleigh Barty
I seem to have a soft spot in my heart for Australia and Australian actors. After having worked with one in 'Cinderella' and a multitude of them in 'Cats,' I've wanted the opportunity to actually perform 'down under.'
~ Lea Salonga
The Raves of Thrones parties started in Australia and has since spread all over the world. However, no one does it like the Aussies.
~ Kristian Nairn
Australia was a very different world and culture from the one I left in Europe. Life was much more spread out. People drove everywhere. They built higher fences. Neighbours didn't interact so much.
~ Andreja Pejic
How comedic are squirrels? We don't have squirrels in Australia. The first time I saw a squirrel was at a meeting at Disney.
~ Liam Hemsworth
But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nation's future - climate change, questions of energy and food security, the rise of China and the rise of India. And we need a strong system of global and regional relationships and institutions to underpin stability.
~ Kevin Rudd
I think Australia is an extremely relevant partner and a key instrument for the stability, the progress, and the support of the East Timorese.
~ Antonio Guterres