Australia Quote by Geoffrey Blainey

As Dutch, British and French explorers literally put this Great Southern Land on the map it would be ridiculous to say that modern day…

— Douglas Pearce

Australia was a very different world and culture from the one I left in Europe. Life was much more spread out. People drove everywhere.…

— Andreja Pejic

“Life in Australia is more equal and less competitive than in America; but there are dozens of similarities...migrations to a new land, the mystique…

— Donald Horne

“Much of Australia's history had been shaped by the contradiction that it depended intimately and comprehensively on a country which was further away that…

— Geoffrey Blainey

Australia is a wild place.

— Kurt Vile

“The settlers of Australia, or more accurately, its conquerors, didn’t just adapt, they transformed the Australian ecosystem beyond recognition.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.

— Baz Luhrmann

Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that.

— Andre Benjamin

Australia is this former British colony at the foot of Asia. We've been involved - we've been in lockstep with America in every battle…

— Richard Glover

I had always been fascinated by the whole idea that Australia was this different ecology and that when rabbits and prickly pears and other…

— David Gerrold

You see, psychologically, Australia must understand it has to live in the region around it. Australia must find its security in Asia; it cannot…

— Paul Keating