Australians Quotes

134 Australians quotes by 100 unique authors

I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I'd touched bottom. — Paul Theroux
Australians are very unfair in this way. They spend half of any conversation insisting that the country's dangers are vastly overrated and that there's nothing… — Bill Bryson
On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia… — Henry Lawson
Australians have a free spirit and an ability to think outside the box, and that is why I like Australia so much. — Brian Schmidt
Malaysians talk with Mauritians, Arabs with Australians, South Africans with Sri Lankans, and Iranians with Indonesians. The Indian Ocean serves as both a sea separating… — Shashi Tharoor
The Philippine races, like all the Malays, do not succumb before the foreigner, like the Australians, the Polynesians and the Indians of the New World. — Jose Rizal
Australians and the British are very similar: If you try and stand out in any way, and you try to reach for success, someone is… — Joel Edgerton
Individuals and communities need to clearly tell government if they want parity for First Australians. Only this will overcome the vested interests of governments and… — Andrew Forrest
Black Saturday reminded many Australians of what they know only too well: that of all the advanced economies, Australia is perhaps the one most vulnerable… — Richard Flanagan
Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage. — Richard Flanagan
If 30 Australians drowned in Sydney Harbour, it would be a national tragedy. But when 30 or more refugees drown off the Australian coast, it… — Richard Flanagan
Australians are pretty blunt and we say things how they really are. — Charlie Bell
For us Australians, Singapore also represents sacred soil. Almost 2000 Australians died here in the defense of your island country and our neighborhood. — Michael Jeffery
Certainly the Australians were buried in Korea. But I think that from Vietnam on, all the killed were brought home to America or to Australia,… — Peter Scott
Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world. — Julie Bishop
This game is something Australians really look forward to. — Matthew Hayden
Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos. — Harold Edward Holt
Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour. — Fred Schneider
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… — Malcolm Fraser
Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of… — Malcolm Fraser
Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years earlier than on… — Phillip Noyce
So there clearly is a sense in which the Labour Party here, certainly at State level is reaching out and connecting with people and reflecting… — Patricia Hewitt
Compared to the United States and certainly a lot of other countries around the world... per year, Australians do see more films. — David Pratt
We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians.… — Kevin Rudd
On Australia Day 2010, as we enter this second decade of the 21st century, Australians can be optimistic about our future, but we cannot afford… — Kevin Rudd

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