Australia Quote by Tony Abbott

It was a positive sign that the conversation took place, it's a sign of the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia.

— Tony Abbott

If Australia wants to be a friend of Asia, it should stop behaving as if it is there to teach us how to run…

— Mahathir Mohamad

Australia is very good friends with China, perhaps better friends than America is.

— Richard Glover

You see, psychologically, Australia must understand it has to live in the region around it. Australia must find its security in Asia; it cannot…

— Paul Keating

I think Australia is an extremely relevant partner and a key instrument for the stability, the progress, and the support of the East Timorese.

— Antonio Guterres

I have a really shallow idea about what Australia is.

— Michael Bierut

Australia is this former British colony at the foot of Asia. We've been involved - we've been in lockstep with America in every battle…

— Richard Glover

“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

I have travelled enough internationally to know and accept the reality that, overwhelmingly, people are well disposed to Australia but in truth know very…

— Julia Gillard

As an outsider, you don't think of Australia as being old-fashioned - it's only when you've been here for a period of time when…

— Boy George

There's a sort of absurdity to Australia and the so-called New World nations. I sensed it all the time growing up in Western Australia,…

— Shaun Tan

Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.

— Baz Luhrmann