Australia Quotes

Being from Australia, I've never even touched a gun. It's so not a part of our culture.

Emily Browning

CultureGunAustraliaNeverBeing

We all know growth is absolutely vital to a free society. No one should want Australia to be a stag-nation: a nation with a stagnant economy and stagnant aspirations.

Rupert Murdoch

GrowthSocietyFreeKnowAustralia

One day, when I have advertising out of my system, I want to be Prime Minister of Australia.

David Droga

DayAdvertisingWantAustraliaOut

It's an individual waste and it's an economic waste for Australia not to recognise dyslexia.

Maryanne Wolf

AustraliaIndividualEconomicWaste

As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society, in the land of our adoption.

Catherine Helen Spence

LoveSocietyBondPerfectAustralia

My dad has spent 20 years of his life working in child protection and writing policy for organisations across Australia in order to recognise and safeguard against abuse.

Luke Hemsworth

LifeChildWritingAustraliaAbuse

I am still very fond of Australia, but my life is now in Los Angeles.

Terence Tao

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While Melbourne and Sydney fight about who wears Australia's cultural crown, Canberra just gets on with it.

Judy Horacek

FightCrownAustraliaSydneyJust

When I came to Australia in 1987 as an adoptee from India, I could not have had any idea where my life journey would take me.

Saroo Brierley

LifeJourneyMeMy LifeAustralia

I'd always fought against presenting radio really, because my father was a radio DJ in Australia. He's just recently retired. And I kind of didn't want to follow in his footsteps. But I suppose, as we all find as we become older, to some extent we do all become our parents.

Jarvis Cocker

FatherParentsDJFindAustralia

I think Australia has to be a country which has the 'Welcome' sign out.

Paul Keating

WelcomeThinkCountryAustraliaOut

In Australia, there just weren't strong roles for actors of colour. I was often being asked to turn up for commercials with a ghetto blaster on my shoulder. I thought, 'Are we in the '60s?'

DeObia Oparei

StrongThoughtGhettoAustraliaTurn

It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia.

Nick Cave

MeBackAustraliaPersonalAlways

When I graduated from high school, I had artistic and academic scholarships, and I was trying to figure out what to do. I decided to audition for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Juilliard and the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in Sydney, Australia.

Deborah Kara Unger

SchoolHigh SchoolTryingAustralia

I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.

Manu Bennett

AustraliaTopKidDancingBreak

My great-grandmother was born in London, the daughter of a Brixton coachman, and became the most famous singer in Australia. Her name was Marie Carandini, Madame Carandini.

Christopher Lee

DaughterNameFamousBornAustralia

The Nauru files lifts the secrecy surrounding Australia's hidden detention regime for asylum seekers through vivid reporting and the words of the guards and officials on the island themselves.

Katharine Viner

WordsAustraliaIslandHiddenAsylum

I found myself drawn to the remote Kimberley region of Australia - in the far Northwest corner of the country - our last frontier. I still can't explain why. I kept coming back over many years and started shooting material.

Brendan Fletcher

MyselfBackCountryAustraliaWhy

Well, there have been periods in the past when prime ministers of Australia and New Zealand were at each others' throats publicly and frequently. That's not productive at all.

Helen Clark

PastNewAustraliaOthersZealand

In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films.

Bruce Beresford

FinanceGovernmentYouGoAustralia

There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia.

Cate Blanchett

TraditionLongAustraliaEntrenched

It is in the national interest to have the Flying Kangaroo. It's in the interests of our tourism industry. It's in the interests of jobs here in Australia.

Anthony Albanese

FlyingAustraliaKangarooIndustry

When we moved to Australia in 2008, I decided to try to live off the writing.

Adrian McKinty

LiveWritingAustraliaTryOff

I went to a lot of different high schools. I had quite a sporadic schooling experience. I went to school in England briefly, to boarding school, and I went to a few different ones in Australia as well. I'm really lucky! I have friends in most countries.

Alice Englert

ExperienceSchoolFriendsAustralia

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