Australia Quote by Geoffrey Blainey

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

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Our creaturely existence is registered, measured, discussed, and represented in increasingly abstract terms. Maybe this helps explain how someone like me, who should know…

— Tim Winton

“There was one thing no one considered, however: Australia was populated by Australians. While the rest of us were trying to adapt to a…

— Mira Grant

“The very essence of Australia is our lack of sophistication–our refusal to conform to pretension and superficiality. We ought to be upholding our ‘fair-dinkumness’…

— Tim Macartney-Snape

“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

There's a sort of absurdity to Australia and the so-called New World nations. I sensed it all the time growing up in Western Australia,…

— Shaun Tan

“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 is mostly empty and a long way away. Its population is small and its role in the world consequently peripheral. It doesn't have…

— Bill Bryson

“Australia's distance from Europe was probably only tolerable because it had strategic commodities which England, threatened by changing European alliances, might some day be…

— Geoffrey Blainey

I was pointing out the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia and the fact that Australia has been there for Indonesia when…

— Tony Abbott

“I love long regarded my country as a secret, as a land half-won, its story half-told. It was as if the past was another…

— John Pilger

“Everything imaginable had been done or tried out there. It wasn't the feeling you had looking out on his own land. In Australia, you…

— Tim Winton