Australian Quotes · Page 3

An education system where student selection is based on credit capacity and not merit capacity and where graduating students are no longer…

— Gough Whitlam

I don't think any Australian will ever forget, there will never be a Carbon Tax under a government I lead.

— Nigel Scullion

For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.

— Radha Mitchell

As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians -…

— Kevin Rudd

I noticed - and this is one of the people don't understand of Tony [Abbot] - he grew. To me he grew…

— Warren Mundine

As far as I am concerned, I have never seen any Indian batsman perform better than Virat on Australian soil keeping Sachin…

— Ravi Shastri

I live in Australia, and I am Australian, and because I grew up in an era where we didn't have a film…

— Geoffrey Rush

If I were asked about what to do about the level of insecurity and anxiety in contemporary Australian society, I wouldn't start…

— Hugh Mackay

I'm half Greek, half Australian.

— Orianthi

Money is tighter now, with the advertising dollar spread a lot more thinly across a whole range of media because of the…

— Grant Bowler

We are all from different cultures. Heath's [Ledger] Australian, really. I'm from here. Ang's [Lee] from China. But I think Ang gets…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

Spiders frighten me. In response to the spider alerts for Australia, please can the Australian government remove all spiders from Australia and…

— Eddie Izzard

I'd always felt the Australian cricketers' behaviour had been appalling. Tampering the ball too constitutes poor behaviour.

— Mickey Arthur

I was born in Australia and am proud of my Australian provenance, but I am now an American. Like so many naturalized…

— Rupert Murdoch

At the moment people get on boats because they flee terror at home and believe the many years' long wait in UNHCR…

— Malcolm Fraser

I fought in Australia before against Ross Pearson, who is kind of an adopted Australian. I think he lives most of his…

— Al Iaquinta

I started ice-skating when I was about 12 or 13 and I was selected in the Australian team for ice hockey. I…

— Lindsay Fox

I wrote a letter to our Australian newspaper about three weeks before the invasion and I said, "Osama bin Laden must be…

— Bob Hawke

I don't think of myself as either American or Australian really, I'm a true hybrid. It's a good thing for me because…

— Mel Gibson

Beyond the horizon, or even the knowledge, of the cities along the coast, a great, creative impulse is at work -- the…

— Vance Palmer

The scariness of manhood to males may be symbolically seen in the many stories of indigenous Australian boys who ran away and…

— Michael Leunig

Sport is an important part of the Australian psyche. Anybody who thinks that sport is not part of the fabric of Australian…

— John Howard

The Australian wedge-tailed eagle has enormous eyes, both in absolute terms and compared with most other birds, and as a result has…

— Tim Birkhead

For me, being Australian is having the opportunity to be your best. This country, this state, gives us every opportunity we could…

— Gladys Berejiklian

I'm not too fond of the typical Australian activities or culture. I'm not into surfing.

— Jens Lekman