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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

Dorothea Mackellar Australia Australian Poetry

...stories want to be told. Stories have a power of their own ... you can't write a story until you've felt it. Breathed it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them.

~ Angelica Banks

Angelica Banks Allen Unwin Australian Books Finding Serendipity Stories Writing

The e-reading revolution may have reached our shores this year but it has yet to reckon with Australia's summer holidays. Intense sunlight plays havoc with screens and the sand invades every nook and cranny, so as convenient and sexy as your new iPad may be, the battered paperback, its pages pocked and swollen from contact with briny hands, will likely remain the beach format of choice for a few years yet.

~ Geordie Williamson

Geordie Williamson Australia Australian Books Ereaders Paperbacks Print Books

If he had given away anything else, he would have been charged with indecent exposure.

~ Edmund Campion

Edmund Campion Australian Australian Literature Boys Town Catholic Catholicism Charity Christian Christianity Priest Priesthood Religion

For fourteen years Wiliam Walker alias Brown alias Shields alias Swallow alias Waldon alias Todd alias Watson had been a major irritant to British authorities on both sides of the world. To the London police he was an accomplished thief. To the colonial government in Van Diemen's Land, he was a clever and determined escaper; he had stolen one of its vessels and caused much embarrassment by making it back to England not once but twice, one of only a handful of runaways to do so. To these skills of theft and evasion must be added outstanding seamanship, a glib tongue, extraordinary resourcefulness and a capacity for leadership. Among his more admirable attributes his loyalty to his family should also not be forgotten. To the convicts of Macquarie Harbour and Port Arthur he was a living legend, tangible proof that escape from the island prison was possible. By any standards, he was a remarkable man...

~ Warwick Hirst

Warwick Hirst Australia Australian Australian Convict Australian History Convict Convicts Cyprus History William Swallow William Walker

Daily we make decisions, sometimes small, sometimes large, that affect our lives.Usually we know the events and people that influence these decisions.However sometimes we have no knowledge, and may never know, of the events and people that change the course of our lives.

~ Valverde Maclean

Valverde Maclean Australian History Mystery Romance

If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us walk together...

~ Lilla Watson

Lilla Watson Australian Equality Feminism Human Rights Indigenous

Look at the truth from how it stands, not where it comes from. The truth is still the truth no matter whether it is spoken by an Indian, an American, a Chinese, an European, an African or an Australian!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Israelmore Ayivor African American Australian Chinese European Food For Thought Indian Israelmore Ayivor Look Speak The Truth Spoken Stand Stands The Truth Is The Truth True Truth Truthfulness

Melons. The girls. Gazongas. I could rattle off every nickname in the world for my boobs – oops nearly forgot jubblies – but it didn’t change the fact they were small.

~ Gabrielle Tozer

Gabrielle Tozer Australian Contemporary Funny The Intern Young Adult

All the best! You are a local legend in a Brisbane and Australia...you probably don't realise just how much...you will get released from that hell hole...you will come home...and discover your 'celebrity status'...which you will probably find nearly as hard to cope with...a different version of hell...anonymity to global fame...what a remarkable journey your life is. Keep safe...head down...this will pass.

~ Paige Garland

Paige Garland Australian Fame Journalist Peter Greste Prison Resilience

Hush now, ‘tis time to sleep and dream secrets of long ago.

~ Jan Reid

Jan Reid Australian Coming Of Age Indigenous Romance Rural

(backpacker having conversation with Lizzie the Australian main character)Backpacker: 'What's the drinking age in Australia?''eighteen''is that enforced'Lizzie thought for a second before answering seriously, 'yes, they make us drink

~ Catherine Deveny

Catherine Deveny Australian Backpacker Drinking Humourous
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