Australia Day Quotes

• The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that “the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Democracies Have, Political

  Noam Chomsky (1997). “World Orders, Old and New”, p.89, Pluto Press

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• I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains,
  Of rugged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains.
  I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea,
  Her beauty and her terror - the wide brown land for me!

  Dorothea Mackellar

  Country, Nature, Rain

  1905 'Core of My Heart', first published in the London Spectator. Collected as 'My Country' in The Closed Door, and Other Verses (1911).

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• Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that's only a recent development.

  Barry Humphries

  Funny, Country, Humor

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• To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.

  Barry Humphries

  Mother, Party, Night

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance. The growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power; and the growth of corporate propaganda against democracy.

  Alex Carey

  Wisdom, Democracies Have, Political

  Alex Carey, Andrew Lohrey (1997). “Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda Versus Freedom and Liberty”, p.18, University of Illinois Press

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• I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don't have a distinctive Australian food, so we have food from everywhere all around the world. We're very multicultural, so we grew up with lots of different types of food.

  Hugh Jackman

  Italian, Korean Food, Different

  As quoted in "Hugh Jackman Calls Daughter "White Foods Girl", OK Magazine, June 2, 2011.

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• There's something intrinsically Australian about a bunch of brothers and school friends getting together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as mates to make something happen.

  Michael Hutchence

  Brother, School, Age

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.

  Graeme Murphy

  Anniversary, 50th Birthday, Four

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• God bless America, God Save the Queen, God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia.

  Russell Crowe

  Queens, America, Thank God

  "Kiwis find something to crow about". www.telegraph.co.uk. March 28, 2001.

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• Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that.

  Andre Benjamin

  Travel, Australia, Far Away

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• It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them.

  Hugh Mackay

  Wisdom, May, Humans

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• Now, I know that there are some Aboriginal people who aren’t happy with Australia Day. For them it remains Invasion Day. I think a better view is the view of Noel Pearson, who has said that Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country’s British Heritage.

  Tony Abbott

  Country, Thinking, Views

  "Tony Abbott on Q and A". www.abc.net.au. April 5, 2010.

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• I'd like to be seen as an average Australian bloke. I can't think of... I can't think of a nobler description of anybody than to be called an average Australian bloke.

  John Howard

  Thinking, Average, Description

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• There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.

  Yahoo Serious

  Stories, Film, Thousand

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.

  Nick Cave

  Happened, Australian, Precedence

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• You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the South Pacific Forum.

  Paul Keating

  Two, Government, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Reading, Pastime, Poetry Is

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• Olivia Newton-John - Australia's gift to insomniacs. It's nothing but the blonde singing the bland.

  Minnie Riperton

  Singing, Blonde, Olivia

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• It's definitely different in the States. Americans are much different people compared to us. We're much more laid back. I itch to get back to Australia every summer because it's so fast paced there and so stressful.

  Andrew Bogut

  Summer, People, Laid Back

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