Australia Quote by Paul Keating

The death of Malcolm Fraser underwrites a great loss to Australia... I always thought Malcolm would be around a lot longer. I must say,…

— Julia Gillard

Anybody who achieves what Malcolm Fraser achieved in his life deserves respect as a quite extraordinary Australian.

— Paul Keating

Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up,…

— Susan Oliver

“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

I'm not saying this in a condescending kind of way, but it's quite simple: The making of America was a heroic thing. Australia has…

— Nick Cave

“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

“Rabaul was a catastrophe entirely of Australia's own making. There were no extenuating circumstances in the form of foreign commands softening the culpability of…

— Michael Veitch

I went along with it, and wanted to appoint a significant figure in Malcolm Fraser. I didn't have high hopes that they'd be able…

— Bob Hawke

“Much of Australia's history had been shaped by the contradiction that it depended intimately and comprehensively on a country which was further away that…

— Geoffrey Blainey

All the arguments there are against Malcolm [Turnbull] - and there are many - the one thing in which he is impeccable and why…

— 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

“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