Quotes About Australians

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. If I had to take hell, I would use the Australians to take it and the New Zealanders to hold it.

Erwin Rommel

#4. A familiar question for Australians is how much we are a product of our circumstances, and how much we are what we have made ourselves to be. In truth, by the act of migration the country was made: by that voluntary act and by the emigrants' ambitions it was built.

Paul Keating

#5. 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

#6. Deep down, the boringly pragmatic Liberal Party has a sunnier view of human nature than the passionately idealistic Labor Party because we are prepared to put more trust in the common sense and decency of our fellow Australians.

Tony Abbott

#7. They (the youth of Australia) are out there clamouring in all forms of voice, and they are not so much hedging us older Australians aside as saying, 'For heaven's sake, listen to us and empower us to help drive this country towards a wonderful future.'

Peter Cosgrove

#8. 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

#9. Australians have a free spirit and an ability to think outside the box, and that is why I like Australia so much.

Brian Schmidt

#10. Australians are a fantastic bunch of people but the attention can be overwhelming for someone like me.

Cathy Freeman

#11. If anything, global response to the Rising only confirmed something that many Australians had quietly believed for quite some time: If forced to live in Australia for a year, most of the world's population would simply curl up in a fetal ball and die of terror.

Mira Grant

#12. I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity.

Julian Clary

#13. Even Australians who take a very, very hard line about asylum seekers - and unfortunately there are more than I would like to think - are probably a bit uncomfortable with the kind of treatment that has been meted out to children in detention by the Australian Government, in their name.

Malcolm Fraser

#14. Australians are pretty blunt and we say things how they really are.

Charlie Bell

#15. In this role my wish is to build our understanding of what it means to protect the rights and human dignity of all Australians. Upholding human rights is about looking out for each other, taking the idea of fairness seriously. And it goes to the heart of who we are as a nation.

Mick Dodson

#16. For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.

Kate Grenville

#17. 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

#18. The Australian is forcefully loquacious, until the moment of expressing any emotion. He is aggressively committed to equality and equal-opportunity for all men, except for black Australians. He has high assurance in anything he does combined with a gnawing lack of confidence in anything he thinks.

Robin Boyd

#19. Australia! Australians! Surely it's still full of Magwitch-types, lumbering oafs with shaven pates and broken noses on the run from whatever law there is, chucking kangaroo heads on the barbie as they read their awful bush poetry.

Dave Franklin

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.

Cate Blanchett

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. The road ahead may be difficult for all Australians, but we need not be divided on partisan lines.

Tony Whitlam

#28. After analyzing the DNA of 13,000 Australians, scientists recently found several genes that differed between liberals and conservatives.

Jonathan Haidt

#29. 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

#30. I'd desperately love England to beat the Australians.

Stuart Law

#31. Australians are decent people with the right instincts and they wish everybody well; but if all is not well, it is none of their business and they will not lose too much sleep over it. The shrug of the shoulders has become - only temporarily, I daresay - the national gesture of Australia.

George Mikes

#32. 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

#33. It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.

Stephen Fry

#34. 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

#35. I'm not the first player to have their home Grand Slam and not perform. There have been a few Australians and French players, you name it. It's a tough thing. But it is one of those things. Would I rather have a Grand Slam in my country than not? I would.

Samantha Stosur

#36. 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

#37. If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always seem to be behaving strangely. People always seem to be behaving the wrong way, in a different way. You say things and there are silences.

Nick Cave

#38. I am determined to honour the confidence which has been extended to us by the people of our great land. And I say to all of those who have voted for us today, I say to each and every one of them that I will be a prime minister for all Australians.

Kevin Rudd

#39. 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

#40. I am thoroughly satisfied that smoking is detrimental to the intelligence of Australians who I notice now are beginning to look sickly, pale and intellectually destitute.

King O'Malley

#41. Only in sport? The qualification would seem meaningless to many Australians. What also is there that matters as much as sport? It is only in sport that many Australians express those approaches to life that are un-Australian if expressed in any other connection.

Donald Horne

#42. 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

#43. Australians were very practical, Emily had found. They did things quickly and purposefully and to the absolute minimum standard required. It was refreshing and guenuine but sometimes led to situations like building a town around a hole.

Max Barry

#44. 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

#45. During my years of professional cricket in England, I realised that although the Australians were talented players, tactically they were a bit naive when compared to those who played full-time on the English circuit. You might find this arrogant, but that was the reality then.

Glenn Turner

#46. At the last census it indicated that about 22 per cent of Australians were born overseas.

Julie Bishop

#47. We must work with the Australians, the South Koreans, the Japanese and the Filipinos to contain China. And then we must ask for their support and their help with North Korea. Because believe it or not, China is as concerned about Kim Jong-Un as we are.

Carly Fiorina

#48. Even the Australians don't know how beautiful their own country is. Particularly where we were shooting 'The Straits.' Most of my stuff was done on an aboriginal settlement on the south shore, opposite Cairns, which I believe was the site where the last person was eaten in Australia.

Brian Cox

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. Compared to the United States and certainly a lot of other countries around the world ... per year, Australians do see more films.

David Pratt

#52. The Australians, it seems to me, thrive on their remoteness from the world and see it as a way of keeping up a code of "No worries, mate," while peddling their oddities to visitors: nonconformity is at once a fact of life for many, and a selling point.

Pico Iyer

#53. 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

#54. When he breathed he truly was Australia's greatest white elder and friend without peer to the original Australians.

Noel Pearson

#55. Like, Australians definitely don't walk around dressed up in blackface going, 'Ha-ha.'

Chris Lilley

#56. Priscilla, Queen of the Desert needed ABBA to invent gay Australians. The

Chuck Klosterman

#57. 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

#58. Australians say 'pissed off.' Pissed means drunk. Piss is alcohol. To take the piss
that means to send someone up, make fun of them.

Geraldine Brooks

#59. Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage.

Richard Flanagan

#60. We moved, and there was a golden era in the '40s when we were so conscious of who we were as Australians.

Graeme Murphy

#61. Australians are descended from a boatload of English convicts, right? So two hundred years in isolation at the bottom of the planet is plenty of time for the language to evolve into some sort of double-speak prison slang.

Elle Lothlorien

#62. 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

#63. There is a real sense of family when you're around Australians, even if you don't know them.

Margot Robbie

#64. Australians are a passionate lot. We are also a very practical lot.

Kevin Rudd

#65. Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour.

Fred Schneider

#66. You have to remember that I was an Australian girl of the Fifties and Sixties. For Australians at that time, it was imperative to get out of the country and discover the world.

Robyn Davidson

#67. 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

#68. Australians always want everyone to be average, as if the best thing you can do is fit in.

Poppy King

#69. 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

#70. Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be ... we can go on a fantastic journey.

Yahoo Serious

#71. 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

#72. 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

#73. I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I'd touched bottom.

Paul Theroux

#74. As Australians, we see the law as inherently bad. We have a real inherent distaste for authority in our makeup.

Nick Cave

#75. 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

#76. As Australians, we must not leave our children worse off. That's not fair. That is not our way.

Joe Hockey

#77. 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

#78. Certainly the Australians were buried in Korea. But I think that from Vietnam on, all the killed were brought home to America or to Australia, in our case.

Peter Scott

#79. 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

#80. 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

#81. I got a film fairly quickly and felt like I was on a roll. I would walk into auditions sounding like Crocodile Dundee, thinking, 'This is going to be a novelty for them.' Then I realised that there are a million other Australians here, and I should just shut up.

Chris Hemsworth

#82. It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case.

Tony Abbott

#83. I have always been attracted to Australians and Australia.

Elizabeth Hurley

#84. 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

#85. I think Americans are probably getting sick of us Australians trying to take their jobs.

Phoebe Tonkin

#86. 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

#87. 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

#88. 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

#89. 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

#90. We still have disgraceful policies on asylum seekers and Aboriginal Australians continue to die in custody.

Justine Larbalestier

#91. 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

#92. 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

#93. 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

#94. 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

#95. We are moving toward recognition of the first Australians in the Australian constitution.

Kevin Rudd

#96. Australians have defied global economic gravity.

Wayne Swan

#97. 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

#98. I think probably Australians have just a little more taste than most people.

Neil Diamond

#99. You know, every country needs another country to mock, and Australians seem to be pretty good at impersonating American people. Maybe it's because all the movies and music and TV you see there is from America, so we just have the knack for it.

Callan McAuliffe

#100. 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