Australia Quote by George Mikes

Although the rudiments of snobbery are there, its finer developments are basically alien to the Australian soul - that is, if Australians have a…

— George Mikes

Thankfully, Australia has emerged from its inauspicious colonial beginnings to become a proud nation, a nation that overcame those primeval prejudices.

— Rupert Murdoch

Australia can no longer afford to go down the path of confrontation and fragmentation which has embittered and disfigured so many aspects of the…

— Bob Hawke

I don't see why, if you look at how the Australian culture and psyche is, that we can't be amongst the most generous, from…

— Andrew Forrest

We all know growth is absolutely vital to a free society. No one should want Australia to be a stag-nation: a nation with a…

— Rupert Murdoch

I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society

— Tony Abbott

A familiar question for Australians is how much we are a product of our circumstances, and how much we are what we have made…

— Paul Keating

When I was young I never believed that Australia was anything else except blessed. I thought it was a little dull when I was…

— Clive James

AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers…

— Ambrose Bierce

Australia's migrant communities have built the country. It has been one of the key pillars of Australia's prosperity over generations.

— Scott Morrison

For much of the latter part of the 20th century, Australia seemed to be opening up to something large and good. It believed itself…

— Richard Flanagan

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