#australia

I'm so used to Australian films not getting a release outside Australia. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#australian #films #getting #i #outside

If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me. ↗

— Nellie Melba

#been #best #got #help #i

Because in Australia there really isn't a lot to do. There aren't a lot of opportunities. ↗

— Radha Mitchell

#because #lot #opportunities #really

A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia. ↗

— Phillip Noyce

#around #australia #barbed #barbed wire #collection

I no longer knew what it was like to feel Australian. ↗

— Phillip Noyce

#feel #i #knew #like #longer

Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years earlier than on the west coast - and where 95 percent of Australians are able to live 95 percent of their lives without ever seeing an Aboriginal face. ↗

— Phillip Noyce

#aboriginal #australians #between #black #black and white

Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came back, forever changed. So there were a lot of questions. ↗

— Phillip Noyce

#australia #back #came #changed #conscription

You can learn a lot when you play in a little town in Holland or Western Australia, and you learn different things than you would learn playing a big city. ↗

— Jonathan Richman

#big #big city #city #different #different things

I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months. ↗

— Peter Scott

#australia #back #come #consequently #disappointed

When I was very young, I got my first opportunity in television with a show called 'Surfing the Menu,' and it was myself and another buddy. We traveled around Australia and we surfed and cooked and drank too much wine. And we had a lot of fun. ↗

— Curtis Stone

#around #australia #buddy #called #cooked