Australia Quotes

Stampeding the Liberal Party into policies would be like stampeding Ayer’s Rock. (Australian Prime Minister, 1983-91)

But South Australia deserves much, for apparently she is a hospitable home for every alien who chooses to come; and for his religion too. Her varieties of religion indicate the presence within her borders of samples of people from pretty near every part of the globe you can think of… You see how healthy the […]

In Australia, you walk across the country, and you find absolutely nothing. And then you die.

I was a man from Australia, the last continent before the penguins at the South Pole, a vast emptiness with a population of only seventeen million people, an unstable blend of European migrant tribes, Asians and a remnant of aboriginal peoples. We were avid tourists and hustling carpetbaggers, sitting on enormous untapped mineral wealth and […]

Australia is an outdoor country. People only go indoors to use the toilet, and that’s only a recent development. (Dame Edna)

From distant climes o’er widespread seas we come. Though not with much eclat or beat of drum, True patriots all; for be it understood. We left our country for our country’s good. (“Our Country’s Good”)

In spite of the well known statistic that Australia has got more culture per square inch than a month old mango, there’s a type of ex-pat Australian journo who gets off on shafting his old mates back home, and, frankly, I wouldn’t piss in his ear if his brain was on fire. (Dame Edna)

To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one’s mother. There’s something a little unhealthy about it. (Dame Edna)

In fact, you could say that I’m one of Australia’s most successful exports, along with my bosom pal Clive James, a woman called Germaine Greer, (I’m kidding, darling) and the gorgeous Nicole Kidman. (Dame Edna)

Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.