Best Australia Day Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Blood and Blunder (The Sonnet) The world is filled with atrocious holidays, Columbus Day, Australia Day and Thanksgiving. Holidays steeped in blood and blunder, are passed on proudly as occasion of merrymaking. Imagine celebrating 9/11 as a day of freedom, Yet colonizers do exactly that without shame. And these animal holidays are a thousand times more atrocious than the crash of nine eleven. Nine eleven is a ghastly stain upon history, there is no doubt or question about that. But what about the infinitely larger stains, inflicted, respected and celebrated by cowards! Human rights can never prevail till we dismantle every false celebration. Animals find honor in blood and blunder, We become human through course correction.”

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Book:The Divine Refugee

Source: The Divine Refugee

“What is it that Australians celebrate on 26 January? Significantly, many of them are not quite sure what event they are commemorating. Their state of mind fascinated Egon Kisch, an inquisitive Czech who was in Sydney at the end of January 1935. Kisch has a place in our history as the victim, or hero, of a ludicrous chapter in the history of our immigration laws. He had been invited to Melbourne for a Congress against War and Fascism, and was forbidden to land by order of the attorney-general, R. G. Menzies. He had jumped overboard, broken his leg, gone to hospital, failed a dictation test in Gaelic and been sentenced to imprisonment and deportation. When the High Court declared Gaelic not a language, Kisch was free to hobble on our soil...”

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Book:Observing Australia: 1959–1999

Source: Observing Australia: 1959–1999

“Australia Day isn't about racism. It's about belonging and being a part of one of the best countries on Earth.”

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Author:Anthony T. Hincks

“I'd like to be seen as an average Australian bloke. I can't think of... I can't think of a nobler description of anybody than to be called an average Australian bloke.”

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Author:John Howard

“I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don't have a distinctive Australian food, so we have food from everywhere all around the world. We're very multicultural, so we grew up with lots of different types of food.”

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Author:Hugh Jackman

“Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.”

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Author:Nick Cave

“The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance. The growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power; and the growth of corporate propaganda against democracy.”

Source: Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda Versus Freedom and Liberty

“And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.”

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Author:Graeme Murphy

“Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that's only a recent development.”

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Author:Barry Humphries

“To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.”

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Author:Barry Humphries

“God bless America, God Save the Queen, God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia.”

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Author:Russell Crowe

“The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that “the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.”

Source: World Orders, Old and New

“There's something intrinsically Australian about a bunch of brothers and school friends getting together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as mates to make something happen.”

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Author:Michael Hutchence

“Now, I know that there are some Aboriginal people who aren’t happy with Australia Day. For them it remains Invasion Day. I think a better view is the view of Noel Pearson, who has said that Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country’s British Heritage.”

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Author:Tony Abbott

“There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.”

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Author:Yahoo Serious

“I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, Of rugged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror - the wide brown land for me!”

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Author:Dorothea Mackellar

“It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them.”

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Author:Hugh Mackay

“Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that.”

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Author:Andre Benjamin

“In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.”

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Author:Phyllis McGinley

“Olivia Newton-John - Australia's gift to insomniacs. It's nothing but the blonde singing the bland.”

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Author:Minnie Riperton

“It's definitely different in the States. Americans are much different people compared to us. We're much more laid back. I itch to get back to Australia every summer because it's so fast paced there and so stressful.”

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Author:Andrew Bogut

“You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the South Pacific Forum.”

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Author:Paul Keating

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