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We should not play like Australia or India or England — we should play like Sri Lanka.
mahela jayawardene— Quoted in Charlie Austin, "Mahela Jayawardene," Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (2007)
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no questions were asked.:; In the eighteenth century it had been quite normal and safe to travel in a country with which your own country was at war.
george orwell— "As I Please," Tribune (12 May 1944)[14]
Being lost in Australia gives you a lovely feeling of security.
Bruce Chatwin— 1987 The Songlines, ch.10.
Hail our Great Queen in her regalia; One foot in Canada, the other in Australia.
— Attributed to Gay by William Arthur Deacon in TheFour Jameses (1927).
The Dead Heart of Australia.
— 1906 Title of book, dealing with the centraldeserts of Australia.
I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.
— 1922 Letter, 28 May.
The indifference — the fern-dark indifference of this remote golden Australia. Not to care — from the bottom of one's soul not to care.
d. h. lawrence— 1923 Kangaroo, ch.10.
Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it’s not necessarily everyone’s place to come to Australia.
tony abbott— Panel discussion, "Tony Abbott on Q and A" on abc.net.au, April 5, 2010.
I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.
russell crowe— New York Daily News (2000)
Kyoto questions the philosophies underpinning societies such as America and Australia, which cling to the myth of limitless growth.
tim flannery— Chapter 25 (p. 237)
There is much in American society which I admire, but I have long held the view that the absence of an effective safety net in that country means that too many needy citizens fall by the wayside. That is not the path that Australia will tread. Nor do we want the burdens of nanny state paternalism that now weigh down many economies in Europe.
john howard— Australia Day Address, January 25, 2006
The Australia of her book is not merely a setting for cricket but a place of interest, of fun and of new impressions
margaret hughes— John Arlott, review of The Long Hop; quoted in Times obituary
Unless legal and illegal immigration is halted and reversed, European First World nations across all of Europe from Spain to Russia, North America, Australia and New Zealand — will be destroyed and have their very culture and civilisation changed to that of the Third World. Immigration is now the single most important issue facing all First World nations, and will determine whether Western Civilisation continues to exist or not.
arthur kemp— Collective Nouns, blog post
As a four-year-old, my mother told me I was climbing the fence, jumping off and calling myself an 'eppyplane' ... I bought books on aeroplanes, I followed everything in the newspapers about aeroplanes. Amy Johnson flew to Australia in 1930 - why couldn't I do something like that?
nancy bird walton— Nancy Bird Walton in an interview with George Negus on George Negus Tonight, 8 March 2004
I consider myself British and have very happy memories of the UK. I spent the first 14 years of my life in England and never wanted to leave. When I was in Australia I went back to England a lot.
naomi watts— "Watts turns back on Australia". The Daily Telegraph. April 24 2007. Retrieved on 2007-04-24.
If I begin my book with a review of the coup, it is only to show that my abiding interests for Australia did not end with it. They shall end only with a long and fortunate life.
gough whitlam— Abiding Interests (1997), Foreword
I was profoundly embarrassed by it [the White Australia Policy] and did all I could to change it.
gough whitlam— Quoted in Paul Kelly, 100 Years – The Australian Story (Allen & Unwin, ABC Books, NSW, 2001), p. 196
In Australia there are not limits on what you can believe but there are limits on how you can behave. It's called the law, and no one is above it.
nick xenophon— From 2009 November 17 speech on Scientology in Australia Senate, cited in Bita, Natasha (November 20, 2009). "Science or fiction?". The Australian. Retrieved on 2009-11-20.
Too much emphasis is being placed in the current debate on providing opportunity for indigenous kids in very remote Australia for imagined futures as 'lawyers, doctors and plumbers'…and too little for futures as artists, land managers and hunters living on the land they own.
— Jon C. Altman, Letter to the Editor, The Australian (2 June 2006).
I've seen Australia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid.
orson scott card— Champi T'it'u aka Dumper
The idea of defending, as integral parts of our Empire, countries 10,000 miles off, like Australia, which neither pay a shilling to our revenue...nor afford us any exclusive trade...is about as quixotic a specimen of national folly as was ever exhibited.
Richard Cobden— A note to Edward Ellice, 1856.James E. Thorold Rogers (ed.), Speeches on Questions of Public Policy by Richard Cobden M.P. (1878), p. 248.
Australia without the Irish would be unthinkable . . . unimaginable . . . unspeakable.
paul keating— Speaking in 1992, as quoted in "Ned Kelly and 'Mary Poppins' writer among top Irish-Australians" by Pádraig Collins, in The Irish Times (19 August 2009)
In Australia Inter alia , Mediocrities Think they’re Socrates .
peter porter— Quoted in Charles Osborne Giving It Away (London: Secker & Warburg, 1986) p. 114.
In considering our traditional ties with the Commonwealth we should remember that it now differs greatly from the entity which existed 20 or 30 years ago. Many of us do not feel quite the same allegiance to Archbishop Makarios or Doctor Nkrumah or to people like Jomo Kenyatta as we do towards Mr. Menzies of Australia.
margaret thatcher— Speech to Finchley Conservatives (14 August, 1961)
Too much emphasis is being placed in the current debate on providing opportunity for indigenous kids in very remote Australia for imagined futures as 'lawyers, doctors and plumbers'…and too little for futures as artists, land managers and hunters living on the land they own.
— Jon C. Altman, Letter to the Editor, The Australian (2 June 2006).
Indian snakes were more deadly than those in Australia
— In p.548 (Snakes: Curiosities and Wonders of Serpent Life)
No original Gauguins were to be seen in Australia, for post-impressionism was officially thought to be the vulgar effusion of five-thumbed lunatics.
— Robert Hughes Donald Friend, (1965), p. 24
In joyful strains then let us sing, "Advance Australia fair!"
— Advance Australia Fair (Australia, lyric by Peter Dodds McCormick)
The President of the United States ordered me to break through the Japanese lines and proceed from Corregidor to Australia for the purpose, as I understand it, of organizing the American offensive against Japan, a primary objective of which is the relief of the Philippines. I came through and I shall return.
— General Douglas MacArthur, remarks to reporters in Australia after he had been ordered by Pres. Roosevelt to leave the fortress on the island of Corregidor in Manila Bay before it fell to the Japanese (March 30, 1942). Reported in Representative Speeches of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur (1964), p. vi; Senate Doc. 88–95.
