Australia Quote by Valerie Desmond

The English probably do that wordplay kind of humour and whimsy better than anyone, and I've always felt that my writing goes more to…

— Graeme Base

Australians are very unfair in this way. They spend half of any conversation insisting that the country's dangers are vastly overrated and that there's…

— Bill Bryson

Most people travel outside of Australia. They don't realise what we've got.

— Nick Cummins

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.

— Stephen Fry

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

I know that people from New Zealand don't ever wanna be confused with being Australians.

— Sydney Sierota

For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.

— Radha Mitchell

Sometimes when Australians go overseas, it's as though the 'Aussie' is refined out of them. I don't know why. It's never happened to me,…

— Rachael Taylor

We need to tell Australian stories,we need to encourage and fund and present Australian work but we also need to understand that for a…

— George Brandis

Australians have a free spirit and an ability to think outside the box, and that is why I like Australia so much.

— Brian Schmidt

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

It's one of the beautiful things about Australia that people do get to share this life here, away from trouble.

— Jimmy Barnes