As my name might suggest, I’m Jewish. My grandparents were Polish and Russian Jews who came to Australia in the late 1920s, and had they not, we wouldn’t be talking now. – Elliot Perlman
Through the Young Men’s Christian Association and principally in Australia and North America, as well as in South America, I came into contact with families of these countries. – Fritz Sauckel
Now, perfectly ordinary people will give each other hugs. I mean, it used to be that a hug was reserved for if you came back from Australia – you know, back in the ’40s and ’50s. – Melvyn Bragg
I know netball is the number one female sport in Australia, but hockey also offers a lot. – Casey Eastham
I kind of left everyone behind in Australia – all my friends and my family and I had to break up with my boyfriend. – Margot Robbie
The English probably do that wordplay kind of humour and whimsy better than anyone, and I’ve always felt that my writing goes more to that than what I did when I came to Australia. – Graeme Base
Being from Australia, I’ve never even touched a gun. It’s so not a part of our culture. – Emily Browning
I absolutely love working in Australia. Overseas is a lot tougher – it’s really hard to break into campaigns over there. – Emma Ishta
Julian Assange is self-consciously an individual. He thinks in his own way, primarily as a physicist, having studied pure maths and physics at university in Australia where he grew up. – Nick Davies
I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that’s my hobby. And I try to race home as soon as I’ve finished a movie but don’t tell anyone. – Eric Bana
At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from ‘the bush’ could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed. – Elizabeth Kenny
You don’t leave Australia unless you are passionate. Any Australian actor who comes to America is really committed. There are no dabblers – it’s all or nothing. – Margot Robbie
It’s got more cosmopolitan, and it’s lost its uniqueness, but Australia is still a great place. – Paul Hogan
It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French. – Fritz Sauckel
After going to Australia, it’s hard to go anywhere after that. I want to move there. I’m obsessed with it. – Nina Dobrev
Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude. – Charles Sturt
We travel a lot from Australia and deliberately route ourselves through the U.A.E. because my whole family loves the place. – Fiona McIntosh
There’s a lot of exaggerated talk about CAFTA, but it’s actually a fairly routine trade agreement. Although it involves fairly small nations, they’re still more important trade partners than places like Australia or many other larger nations. – Ernest Istook
I was eight when we came to Australia. It was five amazing weeks onboard this ship – it was the Northern Star. – Graeme Base
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
I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less. – Diane Cilento
Anything to do with any new form of tax, like consumption tax in Japan, carbon tax in Australia, these are big issues that cannot be easily decided. – Najib Razak
Victoria is proudly the multicultural capital of Australia; we have a diverse, harmonious community. – Denis Napthine
Tony Abbott is the Prime Minister of Australia. Tony Abbott will be coming to Victoria on a regular basis. – Denis Napthine