Beautiful Quote by Patrick Dodson

Australians are decent people with the right instincts and they wish everybody well; but if all is not well, it is none of their…

— George Mikes

“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

The lesson of the Federation should be that the lesson is over. Australia must have a new idea of itself. We have to strike…

— Paul Keating

It's a pleasure to land here and see Australia upholding its commitment to free speech and Western culture - something that may not be…

— Lauren Southern

The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in Australia's history by righting the wrongs of the past and…

— Kevin Rudd

The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country’s dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so…

— Quentin Bryce

Australians are very provincial in many ways. If they feel that you've used them as a stepping stone to bigger things, they resent it.

— Graham Russell

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

It is the misfortune of contemporary leaders, across the whole spectrum of Australian life, that the community's demand for strong leadership is growing in…

— Hugh Mackay

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

“No Australian today is responsible for what happened on our colonial frontier. But we are responsible for not acknowledging what happened. If we do…

— Timothy Bottoms

I often wonder, when I hear some important speaker rattle off the rote land acknowledgements that have become the standard introduction for official events…

— Neil Macdonald