Quotes About Australia

In Alabama this would be a capital case, and if we don't get justice in Australia we're going to pursue the death penalty here

'Dignity of Labour' is a subject to be learnt from Australia!

At the age of 16, I left Australia to go to Bolton.

Australia is my lens. I cannot see the world any other way.

Australia is much more liberal in accepting de facto relationships than the U.S.

Having all this success in Australia is life-changing and incredible and has given me the opportunity to come to the U.S. and get started over here.

I'd love them to have adorable little American accents, but I do want to bring my kids up in Australia; it's such a good lifestyle.

I love London. I love the U.K., but if I was going to live anywhere else on Earth, it would be Australia.

I actually did try to emigrate to Australia a long time ago.

In the '70s, Leo-mania was the equivalent of Beatle-mania down there and they still love me. In Australia they still want heroes.

I found something called Lucas Papaw Ointment in Australia that I can use for anything - my lips, under my eyes, my hands.

The first was How I Turned $1,000 into a Million in Real Estate—in My Spare Time by William Nickerson, a paperback book I bought in a Sydney, Australia, hotel gift shop in 1963.

The two major political parties in Australia are engaged in a furious debate about the federal budget. Neither of them finds it convenient to point out the obvious. This is that to resolve the fiscal deficit and to support spending at roughly the same share of GDP it has been for the last forty years, Australians will certainly pay more tax.

Kangaroos have three vaginas.

Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical care, and $50 million in preventative care, is required to provide services at the same level as for any other group with the health conditions of Indigenous Australians.

It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in.

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.

There has always been a lot of criticism of Australia's border protection policies from New Zealand, but it is one of those cases where the Kiwis effectively free ride on our security. As at 2017, NZ had taken in 33,000 refugees since the Second World War. Australia took in that many in 2016 and 2017 alone.

I love long regarded my country as a secret, as a land half-won, its story half-told. It was as if the past was another country, mysterious and unexplained. 'Australian history' either was not taught or was not required for 'higher learning'. Contemporary history was unheard of. Black history was ridiculed. Historians and politicians, more concerned with imperial propriety than truth, covered up and distorted.

I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.

The hot wind, born amid the burning sand of the interior of the vast Australian continent, sweeps over the scorched and cracking plains, to lick up their streams and wither the herbage in its path, until it meets the waters of the great south bay.

I was pointing out the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia and the fact that Australia has been there for Indonesia when Indonesia has been in difficulty.

I hope the next time you get a double-decker strawberry ice-cream cone the ice cream part falls off the cone and lands in Australia.

We need to act now. Otherwise the biodiversity that makes Australia so wonderfully unique is going to be lost to us forever.