Australia Quote by Katharine Viner

In a lot of ways, Nauru is something like a canary in a coal mine: It's a tiny place with more than its share…

— Johnny Colt

“It would be pointless to deny that some crime in Australia is linked to migrant communities. A factor here is that many migrants come…

— Phillip Knightley

In the traditional academic literature, secrecy is thought of as a set of bureaucratic operations - hiding files and hiding information, that sort of…

— Trevor Paglen

Even Australians who take a very, very hard line about asylum seekers - and unfortunately there are more than I would like to think…

— Malcolm Fraser

Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted…

— Tony Abbott

Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a…

— Yael Stone

Most asylum seekers do get permanent visas, so the earlier they receive the appropriate help, the faster they will become part of the community.…

— Malcolm Fraser

Fleeing persecution is not a crime. And we do not seek to pander to a noisy, tiny minority who will never embrace modern multicultural…

— Bill Shorten

New Zealand was colonised initially by those Australians who had the initiative to escape.

— Robert Muldoon

It's one of the beautiful things about Australia that people do get to share this life here, away from trouble.

— Jimmy Barnes

I ask every Australian to think about what the constitutional exclusion says to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, to see our vast and…

— Adam Goodes

“Together, the chapters make the case that historically high imprisonment rates and the intensive policing and surveillance that have accompanied them are transforming poor…

— Alice Goffman