- “Every time I visit Australia, the inhabitants proudly tell me how every living thing on the continent wants to kill me in horrible, awful ways.” – PZ Myers (1998).
- “Australia. Where the bloody hell are you?” Infamous Tourism Australia slogan from 2006, it was swiftly abandoned in favour of the more anodyne “there’s nothing like Australia.’
- “The thing about Ayers Rock is that by the time you finally get there you are already a little sick of it.” – Bill Bryson (2000).
- “Home is where the heart is, and my heart is in Australia.” – Liane Moriarty (2014)
- “Australia is an island, and its people live on the oceanic fringe of their own land.” – Tim Winton (2001)
- “Australia is about belonging. If you belong, it doesn’t matter if you’re black or white or brindle or blue.” – Jimmy Barnes (2018)
- “Australia must be so pretty with all the dear little kangaroos flying about. Agatha has found it on the map. What a curious shape it is. Just like a large packing case.” – Oscar Wilde’s Duchess of Berwick in Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892)
- “There’s an ease that I have living in Australia. The best things about Sydney are free: the sunshine’s free, and the harbour’s free, and the beach is free.” – Russell Crowe (2000).
- “Australia lives with a strange contradiction – our national image of ourselves is one of the Outback, and yet nearly all us live in big cities. Move outside the coastal fringe, and Australia can feel like a foreign country.” – Kate Grenville (2010)
- “I think Australia has to be a country which has the ‘Welcome’ sign out.” – Paul Keating (1984).
- “Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.” – Charles M. Schulz
- “In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.” – Phyllis McGinley (2001).
- “It’s always hot in Australia.” – Angelique Kerber (2000).
- “To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one’s mother.” – Barry Humphries
- “Australia is about as far away from the rest of the world as you can get. I like that.” – Andre Benjamin (2005).
- “It struck me, not for the first time, that there seemed to be more places in Australia for tourists to go than there were tourists to fill them.” – Bill Bryson (2000).
- “Australia is about …loss and renewal.” – Kate Grenville (2010)
- “Australia is about having a sense of humour.” – Alan Brough (2003)
- “Australia is about …the sense of belonging to a unique place and its landscape.” – Kate Grenville (2010)
- “Australia is about …the fusion of cultures.” – Tim Winton (2001)
- “In Australia, I felt I could truly breathe for the first time in my life; could start exploring the person I might become, whoever that was going to be.” – Rosita Boland (2016).
- “Aborigines have the oldest continuously maintained culture on earth, and their art goes back to the very roots of it. Imagine if there were some people in France who could take you to the caves at Lascaux and explain in detail the significance of the paintings.” – Bill Bryson (2000).
WANDERLIST: Twenty great travel quotes about Australia
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