Australia Quotes - Page 11

• Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor

  Tony Abbott

  Children, Income, Poor

  Transcript of Tony Abbott Speech To the Young Liberals Annual Conference in Adelaide, 2003.

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• I was always nervous about coming back to Australia which was a complete hangover of the days when I left when ballet was not accepted, when I was not accepted, when I was considered a freak for wanting to be a ballet dancer. And, to be 100% honest, I rather dreaded coming back.

  Robert Helpmann

  Art, Hangover, Dancer

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't despair about the cultural scene in Australia because there isn't one to despair about.

  Robert Helpmann

  Art, Despair, Scene

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• And I saw Australia anew through her eyes. And I realised what a tremendously thrilling country it was. And ever since then I have been coming back regularly.

  Robert Helpmann

  Country, Art, Eye

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• Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy.

  Robin Boyd

  Men, Facts, Architecture

  Robin Boyd, Australian Broadcasting Commission (1967). “Artificial Australia”

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• Yet the small house, probably more than anything else that man has done, has made the face of Australia and to an extent the faces of Australians. Australia is the small house. Ownership of one in a fenced allotment is as inevitable and unquestionable a goal of the average Australian as marriage.

  Robin Boyd

  Men, Average, Goal

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• Adelaide was the first city in Australia, if not in the world, to provide for the health and recreation of all its citizens.

  Robin Boyd

  Cities, Citizens, World

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• Australia's is a special kind of philistinism, an immovable materialism which puts art and ideas of any kind deliberately and firmly to one side to let the serious business of living proceed without distraction.

  Robin Boyd

  Art, Ideas, Special

  Robin Boyd, Australian Broadcasting Commission (1967). “Artificial Australia”

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• Yaron has elevated the way Australia perceives circus, both nationally and internationally ... I mean remarkable.

  Cate Blanchett

  Mean, Circus, Way

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• We need to act now. Otherwise the biodiversity that makes Australia so wonderfully unique is going to be lost to us forever.

  Kristy Hinze

  Future, Unique, Forever

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• Cricket. Come summer holidays here in Australia not a whole lot else seems to matter. It's good stuff... Some would even go as far as to say, marvellous.

  Richie Benaud

  Summer, Holiday, Matter

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• Australia is a phenomenally beautiful country, and every time I go away and come back, it never ceases to amaze me.

  David Wenham

  Beautiful, Country, Going Away

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper.

  John Oliver

  Slippers, Racist, Intolerance

  "Australia 'most comfortably racist' country, says British comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Oliver". www.news.com.au. April 16, 2013.

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• I seem to have a soft spot in my heart for Australia and Australian actors. After having worked with one in 'Cinderella' and a multitude of them in 'Cats,' I've wanted the opportunity to actually perform 'down under.'

  Lea Salonga

  Heart, Cat, Opportunity

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• We have a drinking game in Australia, it's called drinking.

  Jim Jefferies

  Drinking, Games

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• Two-up is Australia's very own way of parting a fool and his money.

  Germaine Greer

  Gambling, Two, Way

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• You see layers as you look down. you see clouds towering up. You see their shadows on the sunlit plains, and you see a ship's wake in the Indian Ocean and brush fires in Africa and a lightning storm walking its way across Australia. You see the reds and the pinks of the Australian desert, and it's just like a stereoscopic view of all nature, except you're a hundred ninety miles up.

  Joseph P. Allen

  Ocean, Fire, Clouds

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• . . . strange and fantastic things really happen. During a rainstorm in Australia, fish fall from the sky; several Southern states consider legislation that would make the licking of toads illegal; Lisa Presley marries Michael Jackson. You read these things and you think to yourself that realism may not be the best medium through which to express the real world.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Real, Fall, Thinking

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• Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lying, Successful, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.419, Penguin

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• Australia is a lucky country run by second-rate people who share its luck.

  Donald Horne

  Running, Country, People

  Donald Horne (1981). “Winner take all?”

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• When we had gone down there you have to remember KISS had never been to Australia. So all the hysteria of KISS that was happening in the seventies was building up in Australia. These kids were waiting seven years to see KISS. I was lucky enough to be there when we went over. We got the key to the city, it was just great.

  Eric Carr

  Kids, Kissing, Keys

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• If politicians continue to promote separatism in Australia, they should not continue to hold their seats in this parliament. They are not truly representing all Australians, and I call on the people to throw them out.

  Pauline Hanson

  People, Politician, Parliament

  "Revisit Pauline Hanson's infamous maiden speech". www.sbs.com.au. July 19, 2016.

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• Present governments are encouraging separatism in Australia by providing opportunities, land, moneys and facilities available only to Aboriginals.

  Pauline Hanson

  Opportunity, Government, Land

  "Revisit Pauline Hanson's infamous maiden speech". www.sbs.com.au. July 19, 2016.

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• New Zealanders who leave for Australia raise the IQ of both countries

  Robert Muldoon

  Country, Inspiration, Raises

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• I want to ensure and the Government wants to ensure that Australia is well prepared to tackle dangerous climate change with a scheme which is both responsible and which meets our international commitments.

  Wayne Swan

  Commitment, Government, Climate

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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