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Australians have defied global economic gravity. -- Wayne Swan
I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity -- Julian Clary
All Australians are an uneducated and unruly mob. -- Douglas Jardine
I'd desperately love England to beat the Australians. -- Stuart Law
I don't have anything against Canadians or Australians. -- Geert Wilders
I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity. -- Julian Clary
If you're playing against the Australians, you don't walk. -- Ian Botham
This game is something Australians really look forward to. -- Matthew Hayden
I have always been attracted to Australians and Australia. -- Elizabeth Hurley
I'm angry and I understand why Australians paying mortgages are angry. -- Julia Gillard
The idea of having Australians upset at me is just awful. -- Craig Ferguson
Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage. -- Richard Flanagan
Australians are a passionate lot. We are also a very practical lot. -- Kevin Rudd
I think probably Australians have just a little more taste than most people. -- Neil Diamond
Like, Australians definitely don't walk around dressed up in blackface going, 'Ha-ha.' -- Chris Lilley
We are moving toward recognition of the first Australians in the Australian constitution. -- Kevin Rudd
New Zealand was colonised initially by those Australians who had the initiative to escape. -- Robert Muldoon
Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos. -- Harold Edward Holt
I think Americans are probably getting sick of us Australians trying to take their jobs. -- Phoebe Tonkin
I know that people from New Zealand don't ever wanna be confused with being Australians. -- Sydney Sierota
At the last census it indicated that about 22 per cent of Australians were born overseas. -- Julie Bishop
With increasing frequency and growing vehemence, you hear people saying they are ashamed to be Australians. -- Hugh Mackay
We still have disgraceful policies on asylum seekers and Aboriginal Australians continue to die in custody. -- Justine Larbalestier
Australians are a fantastic bunch of people but the attention can be overwhelming for someone like me. -- Cathy Freeman
The road ahead may be difficult for all Australians, but we need not be divided on partisan lines. -- Tony Whitlam
People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers. -- Cate Blanchett
It's my mission to tell the Australians from abroad in my work that Australia is a wonderful place. -- Clive James
I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I'd touched bottom. -- Paul Theroux
I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave. -- Henry Rollins
When he breathed he truly was Australia's greatest white elder and friend without peer to the original Australians. -- Noel Pearson
Australians always want everyone to be average, as if the best thing you can do is fit in. -- Poppy King
As Australians, we must not leave our children worse off. That's not fair. That is not our way. -- Joe Hockey
What's fascinating about the Australians is they have this quality that they are impervious to majesty. They're not awed. -- Tom Hooper
With Australians we're saying we're going to win before we start playing and pretty much keep on saying that. -- Shane Warne
I see lots of differences between Australians and Americans - but as mothers, I think were pretty much alike! -- Liane Moriarty
Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey. -- Yahoo Serious
As Australians, we see the law as inherently bad. We have a real inherent distaste for authority in our makeup. -- Nick Cave
It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common. -- Stephen Fry
Through the Australians, and the Japanese, too, I suppose, the Americans get their message across, but not in a heavy-handed way. -- Marty Natalegawa
If I had to take hell, I would use the Australians to take it and the New Zealanders to hold it. -- Erwin Rommel
I think Australians are more interested in what I am doing with their money than what I am doing with my own. -- Malcolm Turnbull
Australians have a free spirit and an ability to think outside the box, and that is why I like Australia so much. -- Brian Schmidt
For us Australians, Singapore also represents sacred soil. Almost 2000 Australians died here in the defense of your island country and our neighborhood. -- Michael Jeffery
I believe it's time for direct action on climate change, standing together as ordinary Australians to take control of our shared future. -- David Pocock
What's the point of being an Australian guy traveling through India if you are going to go to India to meet other Australians? -- Alfonso Cuaron
Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies. -- Jacki Weaver
What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English. -- Geoffrey Rush
I'm definitely attracted to other Australians; I have a laid-back attitude to life that I feel is very Australian; I love a good barbie. -- Isla Fisher
All Australians understand that high-quality, reliable and affordable broadband is a critical part of the infrastructure our nation needs to prosper in coming years. -- Malcolm Turnbull
Australians are very provincial in many ways. If they feel that you've used them as a stepping stone to bigger things, they resent it. -- Graham Russell
Australians, we've got a very healthy sense of humor in us. God forbid we take ourselves too seriously so it's kind of a cultural trait. -- Rose Byrne
The Philippine races, like all the Malays, do not succumb before the foreigner, like the Australians, the Polynesians and the Indians of the New World. -- Jose Rizal
Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world. -- Julie Bishop
I was elected by the Australian people to bring back a fair go for all Australians. I have given my absolute best to do that. -- Kevin Rudd
On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to each other. -- Hugh Mackay
It's always a fine line. If you overdo (aggression) it's 'ugly Australians', but if you have a smile on your face it's Australia being too nice. -- Brett Lee
Sport has long occupied a special place in the hearts of Australians, and today the nation welcomes a new champion to the pantheon. Cadel Evans, cyclist extraordinaire. -- Paul Ramadge
Slave holding is very unusual among the English-speaking peoples. Canadians didn't do it. Australians didn't do it. The Democratic Party and the states they controlled did it! -- Sean Hannity
If 30 Australians drowned in Sydney Harbour, it would be a national tragedy. But when 30 or more refugees drown off the Australian coast, it is a political question. -- Richard Flanagan
I think that Americans find the Australian humour and the energy of Australians very refreshing - we are quite self-deprecating, we're light-hearted and can have a laugh. -- Teresa Palmer
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
To me, being Australian is about looking after your mates, taking care of the less fortunate, supporting the underdog and enhancing the spirit that makes all Australians unique. -- Steve Waugh
Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to think it effeminate and vaguely immoral. -- Robin Boyd
I am deeply committed to the cause of Indigenous Australians, and not just because of the Apology, but the big challenges which lie ahead in closing the gap. -- Kevin Rudd
We will certainly have to rethink the way in which we design and protect places where large numbers of Australians and indeed this will happen around the world. -- Malcolm Turnbull
On Australia Day 2010, as we enter this second decade of the 21st century, Australians can be optimistic about our future, but we cannot afford to mistake optimism for complacency. -- Kevin Rudd
One of my theories about why we've been cranky is Australians have been forced to focus on politics or party politics a little bit more than they normally would. -- Yitzhak Rabin
That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people- not at all like the Australians. -- Ian Mckellen
Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers. -- Julia Gillard
Australians aren't really that crazy; in L.A. you get a little crazier. From my experience at least, Aussies don't really care that much about celebrities or things like that. -- Brody Jenner
In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the seed syllable that created the world. -- Jay Griffiths
Though your major media kept smacking me upside the head with the word "multicultural," you goddamned Australians are the most racist bunch of people I've ever seen in my life. -- Jim Goad
Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians. -- Malcolm Fraser
Australia's treatment of her Aboriginal people will be the thing on which the world will judge Australia and Australians - Not just now, but in the greater perspective of history. -- Gough Whitlam
It's a great privilege and an honour to have the experiences and opportunities that I do to meet extraordinary Australians right across our country who share a great generosity of spirit. -- Quentin Bryce
Way back in October 2007, I had urged thousands of Australians to vote for Kevin Rudd and Peter Garrett's Labor Party. Why? Because they promised to get tough on illegal Japanese whaling. -- Paul Watson
Maybe I should have played two more Australians and two less Davis Cups? I could have had more majors and still have three Davis Cups when most people don't have one. -- John McEnroe
I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world. -- Felix Dennis
Malaysians talk with Mauritians, Arabs with Australians, South Africans with Sri Lankans, and Iranians with Indonesians. The Indian Ocean serves as both a sea separating them and a bridge linking them together. -- Shashi Tharoor
The [Maicolm] Turnbull government's position on this is perfectly clear. We believe that there should be a plebiscite so that all Australians can have their say, and that is what Australians want. -- George Brandis
Australians and the British are very similar: If you try and stand out in any way, and you try to reach for success, someone is gonna be there to cut you down. -- Joel Edgerton
I think any time you lose an Ashes series, especially with the hype and build-up surrounding it and the pride we have as Australians playing against England, that's always hard to take. -- Ricky Ponting
Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics. -- Tony Abbott
Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics -- Tony Abbott
I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name. -- Hugh Mackay
A future where all Australians, whatever their origins, are truly equal partners, with equal opportunities and with an equal stake in shaping the next chapter in the history of this great country, Australia. -- Kevin Rudd
The Australians are actually the worst of the criminals from the United Kingdom, but not worst as in toughest. They're the ones who did stupid little things and got caught for it. Bad criminals. -- Joel Edgerton
I think Australians do well here because we feel a bit naughty, like we're in America and if they only knew how much fun we were having, we'd all get thrown out, you know. -- Melissa George
Has anyone ever noticed that when ethnic Australians excel in sport they are heralded "Aussies"; but when something goes wrong they are thrown the "go back to where you came from" line? WAKE UP RACISTS. -- Miya Yamanouchi
Cricket has so many meanings to so many Australians. It's become precisely that - an Australian way of life. And what a life it is. Some would even go as far as to say, "?marvellous'. -- Richie Benaud
I'd say the majority of my friends are Australians, although I have some good American friends, but I think with Aussies, we just get it. We don't take each other too seriously, which is a relief. -- Bella Heathcote
The floods and fires and storms and droughts that Australia has suffered in the last few years have left no doubt in many Australians' minds about just how much is a stake in a super-heated world. -- Jeff Goodell
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
And I liked pluralist Australia. I got a taste for pluralist Australia. I like, I like Australians and I can't believe that they're going to go to hell because they tell a good dirty joke, you know. -- Thomas Keneally
So there clearly is a sense in which the Labour Party here, certainly at State level is reaching out and connecting with people and reflecting the aspirations and needs of, you know the mass of ordinary Australians. -- Patricia Hewitt
On average, the Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese are more similar to each other and are different from Australians, Israelis and the Swedes, who in turn are similar to each other and are different from Nigerians, Kenyans, and Jamaicans. -- J. Philippe Rushton
These are important reforms. Infrastructure, education, health, hospitals, closing the gap with indigenous Australians. Also the Apology to the first Australians. As Prime Minister of the country I am proud of each and every one of these achievements. -- Kevin Rudd
I didn't grow up with money, but I grew up with a lot of space. All I did was surf. I was committed to the ocean. That's one thing about Australians; we have the capacity to embrace life. -- Simon Baker
They say Australians get that ten-yard stare. It comes from the land and the horizon. You can see all around you for as far as you can see. So you just stare. I do it all the time. -- Anna Torv
On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England's account. -- Henry Lawson
I think the world's a little smaller these days. With the Internet and the availability of people, the pool of English speaking actors - not just American actors, but Brits, Australians, New Zealanders, Irish. We're all up for grabs. -- Sonya Walger
If you just compare South Africans to the rest of the world, I think that white South Africans, and especially English-speaking white South Africans, are exactly the same as Brits or Australians or New Zealanders or Canadians or Americans. -- Neill Blomkamp
In fact, in Parliament, I pointed out that Australians on average incomes would move into the second highest tax bracket in the next couple of years. That is going to slow down the Australian economy. It's bad for households. -- Joe Hockey
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
For Australians, climate change is no longer a distant threat. Our rivers are dying, bush fires are more ferocious and more frequent and our natural wonders - the Great Barrier Reef, Kakadu, our rainforests - are now at risk. -- Kevin Rudd
Australians just don't see that many Australian films, but it's also our responsibility as filmmakers and the responsibility of the funding bodies to remember that audiences want to be entertained, and people are entertained in lots of different ways. -- Georgina Haig
Australians can trust me to get the job done. They can have the confidence that in the heart of the circumstances I will win through in their interests no matter how relentlessly negative the leader of the opposition is. -- Julia Gillard
Australia objects to the mini-skirt not on moral but on economic grounds. Australians are no prudes and the lovely, healthy, sporty Australian girls have no reason to hide their knees and thighs. However, the mini-skirt is disastrous for the wool-trade. -- George Mikes
Although the rudiments of snobbery are there, its finer developments are basically alien to the Australian soul - that is, if Australians have a soul; many people believe that they are too matter-of-fact and down-to-earth to have such fancy commodities. -- George Mikes
Well, Australians should speak for the national interests of Australia, and whatever role former Australian prime ministers may have, one of the things you do is speak frankly about the country as you see the country's best interests, you know? -- Paul Keating
I think Australians are rightly suspicious of people who will try and use religion for another end. I don't think that's right and I don't think it should be done, but I think it should inform values, and it does. -- Peter Costello
People have asked me why are Australians and Brits so good at American accents, and it's quite simple. We grew up listening to the American sound on our TV. That's why American actors have a hard time with foreign accents. -- Dominic Purcell
I think that young Australians ought to be taking language education much more seriously. I mean, you know, every day I'm meeting people with expertise, ability and talent in fields where I want to learn so much more; science, for example. -- Quentin Bryce
My guess is that most Australians today would vote for Babe. A piglet who dreams of being a statesmanlike sheepdog. Who merely by asking politely, can lead the electorate two by two through the gate where the grass is always greener. -- Wendy Harmer
Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical care, and $50 million in preventative care, is required to provide services at the same level as for any other group with the health conditions of Indigenous Australians. -- Malcolm Fraser
There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn't mean the right to complete self-determination, unfettered by interests other than one's own, then that freedom is less than worthless - it's oppression. -- Amir Butler
As a result of all this hardship, dirt, thirst, and wombats, you would expect Australians to be a dour lot. Instead, they are genial, jolly, cheerful, and always willing to share a kind word with a stranger, unless they are an American. -- Douglas Adams
What I'm trying to do when I visit Australia, is warn Australians that even though it might not be the case today, learn from the mistakes that we made in Europe: be vigilant and look at Islam for what it really is. -- Geert Wilders
The spirit that America has, the American industry creativity it has where anything is possible. Three idealistic Australians bringing in new ideas and being able to make the damn comic books that they've always dreamed about, it's kind of a cool thing. -- Sam Worthington
Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be entertained and informed, and in which they can communicate effectively, without having to master any but the most rudimentary literacy skills? -- Hugh Mackay

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