In Australia, we’ve always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We’ve never seen a challenge we didn’t like, and we’ve certainly never run from one. – Wayne Swan
I started here in Australia, playing a lot of roles but never the lead guy in shows here. I always tended to play the rougher guy, the criminal who gets caught or shot by the cops. Or the boyfriend from the wrong side of the tracks. – Sullivan Stapleton
Australia integrated the – brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places – in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south. – Thomas Keneally
Canada, Australia and New Zealand have apologised for their treatment of native peoples. – Stephen Kinzer
I actually started out as a writer and then converted to illustration because I realised that there was a dearth of good illustrators in genre fiction, at least in Australia at that time. – Shaun Tan
I’ve always wanted to go to Australia. I hear it’s a great place. I mean, kangaroos are pretty awesome. That’s an up factor. – Zachary Gordon
NATO has a special relationship with countries far away from Europe: Australia, Japan, South Korea. They have joint projects and programmes which are being implemented without these countries becoming members of NATO. – Sergei Lavrov
Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that’s not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners? – Yael Stone
In Australia, getting an audition can be a rarity. There just aren’t as many opportunities. – Xavier Samuel