Australian Quotes - Page 14

• What I believe to be every Australian's right - a good, safe job with proper pay and conditions.

  Bill Shorten

  Jobs, Believe, Safe

  "Bill Shorten grilled about workplace deals and campaign donations at royal commission - live". www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2015.

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• Beyond the horizon, or even the knowledge, of the cities along the coast, a great, creative impulse is at work -- the only thing, after all, that gives this continent meaning and a guarantee of the future. Every Australian ought to climb up here, once in a way, and glimpse the various, manifold life of which he is a part.

  Vance Palmer

  Cities, Giving, Creative

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• Each Australian is a Ulysses.

  Christina Stead

  Australia, Ulysses

  Christina Stead (1945). “For Love Alone”, p.255, The Miegunyah Press

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• Id have to fight for an Australian role over an American actor, and I already have to do that overseas, so why would I have to do it back at home?

  Bojana Novakovic

  Home, Fighting, Roles

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• In primary school, I was bored witless by Australian history.

  Catherine Jinks

  School, Bored, Primaries

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• I grew up listening to Nirvana, and then went through some bad 90s pop stuff - a lot of Australian one-hit wonders.

  Courtney Barnett

  Listening, Stuff, Wonder

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Tony Abbott might think coal's good for humanity, of course it was an important driver in the story of the Australian nation. But when we're talking about the 21st Century and those industries that are gonna take us forward, it won't be coal.

  Richard Di Natale

  Thinking, Talking, Humanity

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The Australian sense of humor is very dry, sarcastic, and very undercover. Like if I tell any jokes in America, people just think I'm serious! So I just quit telling any jokes whatsoever.

  Heath Ledger

  Sarcastic, Thinking, America

  "Remembering Heath Ledger" by Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. January 23, 2008.

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• I have won the Australian, I won the British, all PGA championships, but I haven't won the PGA championship.

  Arnold Palmer

  Championship, British, Havens

  Source: kellysgolfhistory.blogspot.com

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• Spiders frighten me. In response to the spider alerts for Australia, please can the Australian government remove all spiders from Australia and blow them into outer space.

  Eddie Izzard

  Blow, Government, Australia

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• Easiest job in the world of course, Australian psychiatrist, "Gday Gday how you doing no worries next".

  Milton Jones

  Funny, Jobs, Humor

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• It is much easier for me to define what makes a novel French or Russian, but defining the characteristics of an Australian novel are difficult for me as it is all too close - I can't see the woods for the trees.

  Robert Dessaix

  Tree, Woods, Defining

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• I'm Australian. I'm assimilated. I was born here - how ocker do I have to be?

  Pearl Tan

  Born

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• There is a very special place in the Australian psyche for sport. It is one of the pillars of the Australian way of life. You don't really understand what makes the Australian nation tick unless you understand the great affection Australians have for sport.

  John Howard

  Sports, Special, Pillars

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• Sport is an important part of the Australian psyche. Anybody who thinks that sport is not part of the fabric of Australian life misunderstands this country quite dramatically.

  John Howard

  Sports, Country, Thinking

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• Remarks such as 'great Australian', 'larger than life' are sometimes used where they are not appropriate. But in the case of Kerry Packer both of those descriptions are entirely appropriate. He was a great Australian, he was a larger than life character and in so many ways he left his mark on the Australian community over a very long career in business, particularly in the media and also that other great passion of his, Australian sport

  John Howard

  Sports, Business, Character

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• They might be a good friend, but they are also a bitter commercial rival. Let's not kid ourselves.. The American wheat industry has done everything it possibly can to criticize the Australian wheat industry in order to take the Iraqi wheat market from us.

  John Howard

  Friendship, Kids, Good Friend

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• If I am wrong and you are right then the democratic process of the Australian community will vindicate you and condemn me.

  John Howard

  Australia, Community, Process

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• It's beyond belief that any Australian could be so stupid as to carry drugs into any country in Asia.

  John Howard

  Country, Stupid, Drug

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

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• For me, Brett Emerton is the heart and soul of the Australian team. Him signing for Sydney FC, it has to be the biggest catch in the history of Australian football. He's a machine and he's probably the best pro I've ever trained and worked with.

  Tim Cahill

  Football, Team, Heart

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• I celebrated my 18th birthday in Japan, which was quite memorable; I was quite fascinated by the different traditions and the culture; it was so completely different to Australian culture.

  Miranda Kerr

  Memorable, Japan, Different

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• I've known white Australian girls from wealthy families who were sent to posh private schools, who knew all of that stuff, and I think would recognise much in Jefferson's book. What I related to most strongly was the sexism and misogyny Margo Jefferson had to battle.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Girl, Book, School

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• It's rare that there's a role that requires an Australian accent.

  Heath Ledger

  Roles, Accents

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• No one cares about the Davis Cup. How many people know I won five Davis Cups and seven majors, but that I rarely played the Australian Open?

  John McEnroe

  People, Care, Cups

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• Australian troops had, at Milne Bay, inflicted on the Japanese their first undoubted defeat on land. Some of us may forget that, of all the allies, it was the Australians who first broke the invincibility of the Japanese army.

  William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

  Military, Army, Land

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