Tax can be structured in a way that actually encourages investment in infrastructure and encourages investment in Australia from overseas. – Andrew Forrest
Australia is a resource-rich nation. We have been good at exploiting our minerals base and agricultural sector for exports. – Anthony Pratt
I’ve been writing for years and developing my own films and editing with a friend of mine in Australia. – Aden Young
Unlike New Zealand, which has nothing especially predatory, Australia is full of spiders and crocodiles and all kinds of animals that will eat you and sting you. – Brian Cox
My long-term plans are just to get as much experience as I can in Australia and try to make my own films. – Brenton Thwaites
Australia is a remarkable country with incredible technical and physical resources and a capacity to be a world leader in renewables. – Cate Blanchett
Australia has always encouraged the little bloke to have a go, the Aussie battler to get up. – Andrew Forrest
The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest. – Bill Gates
I did ‘Quigley Down Under,’ which is quite deliberately placed in Australia, which is a Tom Selleck, Alan Rickman, Laura San Giacomo film from ’88, I want to say. – Ben Mendelsohn
I tend to use really basic creams, and I like to put an oil on, like an emu oil from Australia. It’s from the emu, and it’s really nourishing. I prefer an oil to a cream. – Cate Blanchett
I don’t feel at home in New Orleans. I don’t feel at home in Austin or L.A. And I just felt immediately at home in northern Australia. – Amanda Palmer
Well, I’m not going to go into what the letter says, because the police are looking at that. But as you say it’s in Bahasa. But of course that’s not to suggest that the letter came from outside of Australia. It came from in Australia. It came from Victoria. – Alexander Downer
If Australia finds it has a strong Australian dollar, and it has higher unemployment, then it would have to respond, and that would either be by increasing domestic demand or by weakening its own currency. – Ben Bernanke
In Australia, we cling on to whatever culture we have. We’re such a multicultural country. – Brenton Thwaites
I’ve been to Australia a couple of times, but never to the north or the centre. I would love to see Ayers Rock. – Anthony Head
It is in the national interest to have the Flying Kangaroo. It’s in the interests of our tourism industry. It’s in the interests of jobs here in Australia. – Anthony Albanese
People who say, ‘There’s nothing to fear from spiders’ have clearly never been to Australia. – Cate Blanchett
I promise there’ll be a tomorrow. In fact, it’s already tomorrow in Australia. – Charles M. Schulz Peanuts, Marcie.
We just say things differently in Australia – like torch. I’d ask, ‘Can I have the torch?’ It seems to fall flat when I say, ‘Can I have the flashlight?’ – Anna Torv
Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined. – Bruce Beresford
Australians have a free spirit and an ability to think outside the box, and that is why I like Australia so much. – Brian Schmidt