Australia Quotes · Page 32

Australia's economic future depends upon getting smarter. This means investing in the skills and knowledge of our workforce.

— Bill Shorten

With increasing frequency and growing vehemence, you hear people saying they are ashamed to be Australians.

— Hugh Mackay

“I used the excess dirt to make a few more continents. Australia is my best work, I think," -Bunnymund”

— William Joyce

I want to see a connected and progressive future for Australia, where we harness our greatest natural resources: sun, wind, and brain…

— Cate Blanchett

But that's what we do in this great nation of ours, we are there to give each other a hand. That's what…

— Annastacia Palaszczuk

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…

— Erin Heatherton

Islam cannot have a significant presence in Australia if we are to live in an open, secular, and cohesive society. We have…

— Pauline Hanson

Where I lived in Glasgow looked like Dresden after the war. It was a bomb site. I don't think I'd ever played…

— Jimmy Barnes

I think Australia focuses on people that had a big start at home, like 'Home and Away' or 'Neighbours' graduates, and the…

— Geraldine Viswanathan

The Menzies Government, by its participation in the plans for the development of other nations, can see the virtue of planning for…

— Anonymous

The idea of defending, as integral parts of our Empire, countries 10,000 miles off, like Australia, which neither pay a shilling to…

— Richard Cobden

The innovation industries are rapidly going global. In five years, more than 50% of venture capital returns will come from markets outside…

— Jim Breyer

One of the most enjoyable things I do at Government House and when I travel around Australia is to talk with children.…

— Quentin Bryce

The whole world is moving to Kyoto II, but Australia is not there on the same basis because it is now seen…

— Bob Brown

With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure…

— Bob Brown

There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in…

— Elijah Wood

The Art of Conversation could not die in Australia; it never lived. Television did not kill it; there was nothing there to…

— George Mikes

My father was in the navy and so while he was deployed soon after I was born we moved to Australia.

— Sean Murray

I think the difference between America and Australia is very simple. It's 20 million people versus 350 million.

— Jim Jefferies

I really miss Australia. I miss eating fish n' chips, oh my God, and Australian pies and the wonderful corner shops.

— Luke Hemsworth

I moved from Australia to Manhattan five years ago and realized I was very well-accepted in the South Asian industry there.

— Shibani Dandekar

Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.

— Baz Luhrmann

Every time we visit my sister Karen in New Zealand I spend the next two months Googling properties and dreaming of escaping…

— Tess Daly

I want to embrace all of this: touring, going to Europe, Canada, Australia. I want to travel the world, just have a…

— Meredith Brooks

England, Australia, Israel, a few staunch, important allies internationally. But we have lost a lot of international support.

— Tucker Carlson

I was actually born in Belgium and lived there until I was 11, then moved to Australia for a year, then moved…

— Stella Maxwell

“I’m slowly beginning to realise how ironic it is that I’m so good at learning lessons inside school, and so terrible at…

— Holly Smale

It's odd, that's why I don't like telling people I played field hockey. It's real big in Australia for guys. But I…

— Heath Ledger

I've been writing for years and developing my own films and editing with a friend of mine in Australia.

— Aden Young

I find it a lot with Australian and New Zealand comics, and people from that part of the world, we share quite…

— Natasia Demetriou

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

— Gough Whitlam

I want to go to New Zealand. I have no idea what it's like, and in my head, everyone lives in/on an…

— Aubrey Plaza

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

— Kristy Hinze

Rich people (in Australia) have swimming pools in their gardens but, at least, they do swim in them.

— George Mikes

Do liberals think nations such as Canada, Japan, Britain and Australia are pursuing 'racist' immigration policies? All have had merit-based immigration systems…

— Mercedes Schlapp

I've never been to New Zealand actually. All I know is that there's a lot of greenery there. I'd love to come…

— Charli XCX

Tax can be structured in a way that actually encourages investment in infrastructure and encourages investment in Australia from overseas.

— Andrew Forrest

It is habit for me to discount myself before somebody else does it for me. Better to get in the first lick

— Errol Flynn

Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.

— Rick Springfield

In Australia you can be a little bit more attacking, in places on the subcontinent you've got to find ways to get…

— Steve Smith