#australians

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

We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians. We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#apologise #australians #children #communities #country

What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#australians #condescended #delved #english #fact

On average, the Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese are more similar to each other and are different from Australians, Israelis and the Swedes, who in turn are similar to each other and are different from Nigerians, Kenyans, and Jamaicans. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#average #chinese #different #each #israelis

Australians are very provincial in many ways. If they feel that you've used them as a stepping stone to bigger things, they resent it. ↗

— Graham Russell

#bigger #feel #many #provincial #resent

Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour. ↗

— Fred Schneider

#geniuses #good #good sense #humour #sense

I think that Americans find the Australian humour and the energy of Australians very refreshing - we are quite self-deprecating, we're light-hearted and can have a laugh. ↗

— Teresa Palmer

#australians #energy #find #humour #i

That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people- not at all like the Australians. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#big #discovering #effect #even #had

Australians are very unfair in this way. They spend half of any conversation insisting that the country's dangers are vastly overrated and that there's nothing to worry about, and the other half telling you how six months ago their Uncle Bob was driving to Mudgee when a tiger snake slid out from under the dashboard and bit him on the groin, but that it's okay now because he's off the life support machine and they've discovered he can communicate with eye blinks. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#communication

I think probably Australians have just a little more taste than most people. ↗

— Neil Diamond

#i #i think #just #little #more