My grandfather was like Australia's Tom Jones.
Conrad Sewell
GrandfatherAustraliaLikeTom
All of my dad's family, his brothers and sisters, my nana and grandad and all of the cousins emigrated to Australia within two years of each other. Irish families are close at the best of times, but when you move to the other side of the world, we were like a big posse over there.
Genevieve O'Reilly
FamilyBestWorldYouAustraliaBig
My long-term plans are just to get as much experience as I can in Australia and try to make my own films.
Brenton Thwaites
ExperienceI CanAustraliaPlansTry
I used to feel an obligation to invent things. I felt I was a failure because I didn't do massive great novels about Australia or the outback or something. I just don't feel that any more.
Helen Garner
FailureGreatFeelAustraliaMore
I love Australia! I got a boot thrown at me there.
Art Alexakis
LoveMeAustraliaGotThrownBoot
There is so much talent in Australia.
Cate Blanchett
TalentAustraliaMuch
The sporting fields where Australia's greats began their careers are built and rebuilt with Commonwealth help, as are the halls and community centres where our most of our well-known stars first felt the magic of the stage.
Anthony Albanese
StarsCommunityHelpMagicAustralia
What I see as specially English is the charm - everyone is so polite. Being restrained is part of the charm. And I love the sense of humour - it takes me back to Australia. The English are great at making fun of themselves. They're so self-effacing.
Danielle de Niese
LoveGreatFunMeBackAustralia
A lot of artists get famous overseas first. I don't know what it is here. I have a large underground following in the U.S., but I don't get the airplay as much as I do in, say, Australia. Over there, they can play whatever they like, it seems, but not so much here.
Wynter Gordon
FamousPlayKnowSayAustraliaOver
A lot of my friends are in Australia, and it's definitely nice to get back there.
Yvonne Strahovski
FriendsBackNiceAustraliaGetLot
Often there's a BA crew, because half the time we stay at the same hotels, especially in Australia. I can remember spending quite a lot of time with crews around the pool there. They always make themselves known to us.
Phil Collins
TimeRememberPoolI CanAustralia
Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
Yael Stone
HistoryWhiteCountryAustraliaMean
In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents.
Peter Garrett
WeatherGeographyAustraliaSoil
Me and my family, we sort of had this plan to... once we had kids, we had a plan that about every six years we'd move to a new country. So, when we had kids, we moved to Bali for six years, then we went to Australia for six years.
Taylor Steele
FamilyMePlanCountryAustralia
NATO has a special relationship with countries far away from Europe: Australia, Japan, South Korea. They have joint projects and programmes which are being implemented without these countries becoming members of NATO.
Sergei Lavrov
RelationshipFar AwayAustraliaBeing
Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to.
Pat Oliphant
TodayYouGoAustraliaBeenEven
Although we had been led to believe our mission was suicidal, Russia's intrigue was irresistible. Almost twice the size of Australia, it spans 11 time zones from the Baltic to the Pacific.
Tim Cope
TimeBelieveMissionAustraliaSize
The markets where we've got real good presence are the older, more mature markets like Australia, and Western Europe - where we've only got 6,000 stores, compared to the US with 13,000.
Jim Cantalupo
GoodAustraliaMatureMoreRealUs
I think Australia is pretty much living the last day on Earth in a lot of ways.
Nathan Phillips
DayThinkEarthAustraliaLiving
After going to Australia, it's hard to go anywhere after that. I want to move there. I'm obsessed with it.
Nina Dobrev
GoWantAustraliaHardGoingMove
I did five movies in Australia, I did three films in Germany, this is the fourth film I've done here in the UK, I've done a bunch of films in Canada.
Joel Silver
CanadaDoneThreeMoviesAustralia
Australia is not a safe place.
Mahathir Mohamad
PlaceAustraliaSafeSafe Place
Black Saturday reminded many Australians of what they know only too well: that of all the advanced economies, Australia is perhaps the one most vulnerable to climate change.
Richard Flanagan
ChangeBlackSaturdayKnowAustralia
Australia was a very different world and culture from the one I left in Europe. Life was much more spread out. People drove everywhere. They built higher fences. Neighbours didn't interact so much.
Andreja Pejic
LifeCulturePeopleWorldAustralia
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