Australia Quote by Marina Abramovic

“Australian aborigines, surprisingly, turn out to be a race unlike any other. They and their relatives in New Guinea have no trace in their…

— Nicholas Wade

The number of those identifying as Aborigine in Tasmania rapidly rose in the late 20th century.

— Richard Flanagan

If Australia is The Lucky Country, the Aborigines must be the unluckiest people in the world.

— Frank Hardy

There's something about Australia that feels prehistoric.

— Carrie Coon

Unlike some mainland black groups, Tasmanian Aborigines now have no traditional tribal culture left. It was taken from them with great violence and great…

— Richard Flanagan

“The Australian aborigines, reckoned to be among the most primitive of races upon evidence that is far from conclusive, have a region that is…

— Olaf Ruhen

My family came to Australia on the First Fleet. My family’s been in that country for a long time, over 100 years. If your…

— Iggy Azalea

What Australia was before is the fullest Australia has ever been... as created and made and valued by indigenous people. The white man came…

— Galarrwuy Yunupingu

In the late 19th century, the theory that the Aborigines were an inferior race that was doomed to die out became accepted as fact.

— Richard Flanagan

We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation with deepest…

— Kevin Rudd

Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years earlier than…

— Phillip Noyce

Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.

— Ambrose Bierce