Best Australian Sayings
267 Australian quotes by 183 unique authors
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I'm not so sure liberal democracy as we know it has reached its terminus. It's clear though, that many have genuinely lost confidence in the…
— Tim Soutphommasane
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For Indigenous Australians, equal rights and citizenship have not always translated into full participation in Australian society. All Indigenous Australians have only been counted in…
— Jackie Huggins
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We have reached a pivotal time in Indigenous affairs when for the first time, national attention is being paid to the horror of Indigenous family…
— Jackie Huggins
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Frank Lowy is an institution in Australian sport but judging by this decision he might be visiting a different kind of institution. He has brought…
— Clive Palmer
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If you find an Australian indoors, it's a fair bet that he will have a glass in his hand.
— Jonathan Aitken
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The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that “the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great…
— Noam Chomsky
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To me, being Australian is about looking after your mates, taking care of the less fortunate, supporting the underdog and enhancing the spirit that makes…
— Steve Waugh
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There's something intrinsically Australian about a bunch of brothers and school friends getting together as a band at a very young age and all pulling…
— Michael Hutchence
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The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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I think Australian food is probably some of the best in the world.
— Karrie Webb
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The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother’s convenience.
— Tony Abbott
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Another big problem with any Australian emissions reduction scheme is that it would not make a material difference to atmospheric carbon concentrations unless the big…
— Tony Abbott
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It has been said that the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games is something that an athlete will remember for the rest of their life.…
— Jeff Fenech
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I'd accomplished everything I had set out to do - winning the French and Australian Opens, the Olympic gold medal and the Davis Cup. So…
— Yevgeny Kafelnikov
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Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!
— David Chalmers
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But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my and other Australian writers' work…
— Thomas Keneally
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If you go to Australia, the Australian Open is on all day long on network TV. There's no way CBS, NBC and ABC would do…
— Lindsay Davenport
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But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director. Whether I'm French or Australian…
— Michel Hazanavicius
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By 1990, no Australian child will be living in poverty.
— Bob Hawke
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Before becoming an Australian you will be asked to subscribe to certain values. If you have strong objections to those values, don't come to Australia.
— Peter Costello
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The Australian sees itself not as a mere newspaper, but as a player in the game of national politics, calling upon the vast resources of…
— Robert Manne
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In Australian culture, people are just more laid back, people aren't as serious, they just take their time with things. It's just like, whatever, if…
— Andrew Bogut
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought…
— Yahoo Serious
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I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets,…
— Yahoo Serious
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If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force…
— Yahoo Serious
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