Australia Quote by Catherine Helen Spence

My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late '60s and '70s, and I guess I've inherited that awareness from her.

— Robin McLeavy

“The enigma that had bothered me in Sydney was beginning to resolve itself. If Australians allowed themselves to be represented worldwide as a nation…

— Ted Simon

I can't help but recall my dad and mom. Depression era kids, 8th and 9th grade educations, clawed and scratched to make a living…

— Bob Beauprez

The floods and fires and storms and droughts that Australia has suffered in the last few years have left no doubt in many Australians'…

— Jeff Goodell

Way of life in Australia focuses more on the outdoors.

— Thomas Muster

We still had all our problems growing up as a struggling immigrant family, but Australia was like a breath of fresh air, literally. Playing…

— Jimmy Barnes

Australia has the British way of life - and great weather. I could live there.

— Kelvin Fletcher

The question of place and climate is most closely related to the question of nutrition. Nobody is free to live everywhere; and whoever has…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For Australians, climate change is no longer a distant threat. Our rivers are dying, bush fires are more ferocious and more frequent and our…

— Kevin Rudd

Black Saturday reminded many Australians of what they know only too well: that of all the advanced economies, Australia is perhaps the one most…

— Richard Flanagan

The only thing my mum could afford growing up was to be able to look after me and my brother so the only thing…

— John Newman

To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.

— Barry Humphries