Australia Quotes
611 Australia quotes by 369 unique authors
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I was profoundly embarrassed by it (the White Australia Policy) and did all I could to change it.
— Gough Whitlam
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Hostility towards China distorted Australia's international affairs for 20 years until 1972, but reconciliation with China 30 years ago had produced a quarter century of…
— Gough Whitlam
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Conscription is an impediment to achieving the forces Australia needs. It is an alibi for failing to give proper conditions to regular soldiers. We will…
— Gough Whitlam
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A 17-year-old girl in Australia hacked into my e-mail while I was on it, Then a 15-year-old girl in England did the same thing.
— Robert Pattinson
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OPTIMISM, enthusiasm, confidence against fear, prejudice, conformity - that is his enduring message to the men and women of Australia. Never more than now.
— Unknown Author
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The effect on the geo-cultural political map of Australia made by Gough Whitlam is so vast that wherever you stick the pin in, you get…
— Cate Blanchett
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When he breathed he truly was Australia's greatest white elder and friend without peer to the original Australians.
— Noel Pearson
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The investment in our mining industry has been very positive for Australia but we need to be doing more if we want, as I do,…
— Gina Rinehart
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About the last thing I ever wanted in life was a knighthood, and even today some forty years after the event, I find it difficult…
— Donald Bradman
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The prudential regulation that I have put in place has been absolutely critical. The fiscal policy which we have put in place has been absolutely…
— Peter Costello
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A future where all Australians, whatever their origins, are truly equal partners, with equal opportunities and with an equal stake in shaping the next chapter…
— Kevin Rudd
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Extreme weather like the droughts in Russia, China and Brazil and the flooding in Pakistan and Australia [in 2010] have contributed to a level of…
— John Beddington
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It was inspiring to learn of the new Bachelor of Environmental Studies Program, and I congratulate you for it. Singapore is geographically in the right…
— E. O. Wilson
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Eighty-two percent of Australia's bird species and two thirds of Australia's mammal species can be found on our (Australian Wildlife Conservancy) reserves. We put teams…
— Kristy Hinze
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Today the thing I find myself thinking about the most is our landscape...I think it's something a lot of us take for granted; for many…
— Mick Dodson
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Never was a continent naturally so clean, and made so dirty, as Australia. There was not an animal pest, scarcely a vegetable pest; fools and…
— Unknown Author
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The Montefiores have taken Australia for their own, and there is not a gold field or a sheep run from Tasmania to New South Wales…
— Unknown Author
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Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, the (Rothschild) brothers conducted important transactions on behalf of the governments of England, France, Prussia, Austria, Belgium,…
— G. Edward Griffin
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It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools…
— Henry Lawson
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I love having my birthday at Australia Zoo.
— Bindi Irwin
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I couldn't imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.
— Ava Gardner
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But although Australia was also involved in the Vietnam conflict, I can remember my dad telling us that if we were in Australia, we wouldn't…
— Mel Gibson
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I love Australia. My dream would be to have a place to live there and be able to commute back and forth
— Sarah Michelle Gellar
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The boomerang is Australia's chief export (and then import).
— Demetri Martin
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I've been lucky to travel through quite a bit of Europe and Australia, but I would love to do Asia and South America and South…
— Dianna Agron
Who Wrote These Australia Quotes
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