#australian

It's a fun day, a day which kicks off the start of our tour, it's got great tradition - Australian cricketers just love tradition - and it's been a really pleasant day. ↗

— Matthew Hayden

#been #cricketers #day #fun #got

I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene. ↗

— Peter Porter

#carefully #clues #completely #considered #england

To me, anyone with an Australian accent wielding a tennis racket is cool. ↗

— Adrian Smith

#anyone #australian #cool #me #racket

When I returned home soon afterwards, it was with a newly awakened sense of what Australian literature was good for: helping us define ourselves in relation to an Anglo past and American present, for example, or airing the wounds suffered by indigenous Australia, or inhabiting those new frictions that result from our expanding cultural pluralism. Above all, it could teach us to dwell more easily in a landscape that did not accord with the metaphors and myth-kitty that was our northern inheritance. ↗

— George Williamson

#australian #australian-literature #home

I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged 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! ↗

— Dorothea Mackellar

#australian #poetry #beauty

Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#australians #expectancy #health #highest #life

At the last census it indicated that about 22 per cent of Australians were born overseas. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#australians #born #census #cent #indicated

I call on the Australian Government to set out the conditions upon which they will provide a taxpayer funded backing for wholesale term funding for Australian deposit taking institutions. I call on the Government it make clear the conditions upon which taxpayer funds will be used in this way. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#backing #call #clear #conditions #deposit

The concern is the Government is not coming clean and informing the Australian public of the assumptions that they have made to give rise to a $10.4 billion package. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#australian #billion #clean #coming #concern

The Australian economy is resilient, but business and consumer confidence is fragile. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#business #confidence #consumer #consumer confidence #economy