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Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the mainland of the world's smallest continent, the island of Tasmania and a number of other islands in the Indian, Southern and Pacific Oceans. Australia claims approximately two-fifths of Antarctica, but this is not widely recognized. It is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations and its head of state is the monarch, King Charles III. Australian English is the de facto national language.
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“Never allow the thoughtless to delcare
That we have no tradition here!”
That we have no tradition here!”
- Australia, 20th century, 1960s)
This Aboriginal saying, documented in *Songs of the Songmen*, expresses a reciprocal relationship: what you give to the world returns to you.
English Translation: "It is not possible to determine the language or provide a meaningful translation as the text appears to be a constructed or nonsensical phrase."
Original (Unknown): "Mordja Amari Boaradja Ngu Borngga Amari Mordja."
“Mordja Amari Boaradja Ngu Borngga Amari Mordja.”
Original (Unknown): "Mordja Amari Boaradja Ngu Borngga Amari Mordja."
- Australia, Dreamtime)
“Australia without the Irish would be unthinkable... unimaginable... unspeakable.”
- Australia, 1990s)
“Surely what the Americans have done by war, Australians can bring about in peace.”
- Australia, 19th century, 1880s)
“This is a rune I ravelled in the still, Arrogant stare of an Australian cow.”
- Australia, 20th century, 1910s)
“Anyone will tell you it's a prisoner island,
Hidden in the summer for a million years.”
Hidden in the summer for a million years.”
- Australia, 20th century, 1980s)
“[At the time of Federation] Most Australians were still strangers in a new land. The land was only half won.”
- Australia, 20th century, 1980s)
“Flax was the first conqueror – a hollow conqueror – of the distance which so often shaped Australia's destiny.”
- Australia, 20th century, 1960s)
“With its weird red earth and its alien flora and fauna... Australia was the eighteenth-century equivalent of Mars.”
- Australia, 21st century, 2000s)
“Aboriginies, n. Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.”
- Australia, 20th century, 1910s)
“The Inhabitants of this Country are the miserablest People in the world. ... Setting aside their human Shape, they differ but little from Brutes.”
- Australia, 17th century, 1690s)
John Freeth's 1787 poem, "Botany Bay," reflects British anxieties about losing America and proposes a new penal colony in Australia as a solution.
“The loss of America what can repay? New colonies seek for at Botany Bay.”
- Australia, 18th century, 1780s)
“Do you know, Mr Hopper, dear Agatha and I are so much interested in Australia. It must be so pretty with all the dear little kangaroos flying about.”
- Australia, 19th century, 1890s)
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Australia on Cannibalism
In his account of Oceania, Douglas Rannie details a chilling encounter with cannibals offering cooked human flesh, revealing a stark clash of cultures and appetites.
“They made no secret of their relish for human flesh. At one place of call where we were landing ..., the savages brought down quite a quantity of the flesh of a young woman whom they had just cooked. In offering parts for sale, they said that if we white men did not like to eat it possibly some of our native boatmen would enjoy it.”
- Australia, 19th century, Oceania)
Australia on Cannibalism in Oceania
In his account of Oceania, Douglas Rannie details a chilling encounter with cannibals offering cooked human flesh, revealing a stark clash of cultures and appetites.
“They made no secret of their relish for human flesh. At one place of call where we were landing ..., the savages brought down quite a quantity of the flesh of a young woman whom they had just cooked. In offering parts for sale, they said that if we white men did not like to eat it possibly some of our native boatmen would enjoy it.”
- Australia, 19th century, Bismarck Archipelago)
Australia on Privacy
“As will be evident from the foregoing discussion, even a cursory consideration of privacy raises a number of conceptual difficulties. What is privacy? What interests are affected and protected by privacy? What is the justification for recognising a legally enforceable “right” to privacy? How is the balance to be struck between the right to privacy and other competing rights and interests, identified by the Australian Law Reform Commission in 1983 as: Freedom of expression; freedom of information; protection of the revenue; prevention and detection of crime and apprehension of offenders; protection of economic, trade and state secrets; respect for confidential relationships; protection of financial, property and staff management interests; maintenance of national security and an effective defence capability; protection of diplomatic relations; and protection of significant managerial interests, for example the need for effective conduct of audits, examinations; and protection of significant managerial interests, for example the need for effective conduct of audits, examinations and efficiency reviews.”
- Australia, "Privacy law in Australia”
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Australia on Elvis Presley 4 quotes
Discovering two minor planets in quick succession, Australian astronomer John Broughton playfully named one "Planet Elvis" to complement his earlier "Rock and Roll" discovery.
“I named it Planet Elvis (17059) because I had discovered a similar one, just two days before and which I called Rock and Roll (17058). It just seemed befitting...”
Australia on William Bateson 2 quotes
“Misconception was especially brought in by describing descent in terms of "blood". The common speech uses expressions such as consanguinity, pure-blooded, half-blood, and the like, which call up a misleading picture to the mind. Blood is in some respects a fluid, and thus it is supposed that this fluid can be both quantitatively and qualitatively diluted with other bloods, just as treacle can be diluted with water.”
Australia on Roger Waters
“Well, he's schizophrenic. And has been since 1968.”
- Australia, Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett)
Australia on Fred Hollows
Australia on Vladimir Putin
“There must be a price for the unprovoked, unlawful, unwarranted, unjustified attacks and threats and intimidation that has been imposed by Russia on Ukraine. This cannot be a consequence-free action by Vladimir Putin and the Russian regime.”
Australia on Ronald Reagan
“Ronald Reagan, in my view, was the greatest of post-World War II American presidents. More than anybody else, he followed the policies that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union, the end of the Cold War and the final victory of a more free-market approach to the management of economies over the centrally planned approach in the old Eastern states. … His greatest legacy will be the end of Soviet communism.”
Australia on Boris Yeltsin
“I think he will be best remembered as the person who really ultimately did save the arrival of democracy in Russia. That momentous occasion when he stood on the tank outside the Russian Parliament and held back the counter-revolution, if I can put it that way, by the old guard of the former Soviet regime. He has a place in history as a result of that. Later on he lost a lot of credibility on some economic issues, but nothing can wipe out the contribution that Yeltsin made to bringing democracy to Russia.”
About Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the mainland of the world's smallest continent, the island of Tasmania and a number of other islands in the Indian, Southern and Pacific Oceans. Australia claims approximately two-fifths of Antarctica, but this is not widely recognized. It is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations and its head of state is the monarch, King Charles III. Australian English is the de facto national language.