Australia Quote by Richard Flanagan

John Howard, willing to apologise to home owners for rising interest rates, would not say sorry to Aborigines. He refused to condone what he…

— Richard Flanagan

Present governments are encouraging separatism in Australia by providing opportunities, land, moneys and facilities available only to Aboriginals.

— Pauline Hanson

“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

Yeah, I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling.

— Steve Irwin

Way back in October 2007, I had urged thousands of Australians to vote for Kevin Rudd and Peter Garrett's Labor Party. Why? Because they…

— Paul Watson

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

The death of Malcolm Fraser underwrites a great loss to Australia. Notwithstanding a controversial prime ministership, in later years he harboured one abiding and…

— Paul Keating

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

I was profoundly embarrassed by it (the White Australia Policy) and did all I could to change it.

— Gough Whitlam

Poor quality of representatives... is not a purely Australian phenomenon - it's a worldwide phenomenon.

— Bob Hawke

For Indigenous Australians, equal rights and citizenship have not always translated into full participation in Australian society. All Indigenous Australians have only been counted…

— Jackie Huggins

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