#australia

Valkyrie walked to the back door, which hadn't been closed properly, shut it and locked it. There was now a baby in the house, after all. She couldn't take the chance that a wild animal might wander in and make off with Alice, like those dingoes in Australia. She was probably being unfair to both dingoes and Australia, but she couldn't risk it. Locked doors kept the dingoes out, and that's all there was to it, even if she didn't know what a dingo actually was. She took out her phone, searched the Internet, found a picture of a baby dingo and now she really wanted a baby dingo for a pet. ↗

— Derek Landy

#baby-safety #child-safety #dingo #dingoes #funny

My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin. ↗

— Desmond Llewelyn

#almost #anybody #australia #back #bin

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

New Zealanders who emigrate to Australia raise the IQ of both countries. ↗

— Robert Muldoon

#both #countries #emigrate #iq #new

I think I had about a month off when I broke my rib in Australia, which was magnificent. ↗

— Kevin Pietersen

#australia #broke #had #i #i think

2009 was a tough year, but Australia rose to the challenge of the global financial crisis. It shows what can be done when we all join together and work together, governments of all persuasions state, territory and local; businesses large and small; unions and local communities right across the nation. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#australia #businesses #challenge #communities #crisis

As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest continuing culture in human history. On behalf of the Australian Parliament, this year I offered an apology to indigenous Australians for the wrongs they had suffered in the past. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#also #apology #australia #australian #australians

As you know, the Australian Labour Party is committed to turning the country into a republic. We've not stipulated a timeline for doing that. We are sensitive to the other priorities we've got as a nation and in the world, but in time the country will head in that direction. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#committed #country #direction #doing #got

Building a new Health and Hospitals Network is fundamental to building a stronger and fairer Australia. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#building #fairer #fundamental #health #hospitals

But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nation's future - climate change, questions of energy and food security, the rise of China and the rise of India. And we need a strong system of global and regional relationships and institutions to underpin stability. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#also #australia #challenges #change #china