#australia

Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#australian #children #farmers #grain #grow

Do the people in Australia call the rest of the world 'Up Over'? ↗

— Steven Wright

#humor

Mates such as they must stand by one another ↗

— Mary Grant Bruce

#billabong #friendship #inspirational #love #loyalty

When you think of somebody all the time it means one of two things - either you hate their guts or you like them a lot. ↗

— Phillip Gwynne

#australia #love #nukkin-ya #young-adult #love

I don't think I ever worked harder at any match during my career to get runs as I did then, nor did I ever have to face in one game such consistently fast bowlers as the Australian pair, Gregory and McDonald. ↗

— Frank Woolley

#australian #bowlers #career #consistently #did

(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

#backpacker #drinking #humourous #age

I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#australia #commuting #england #had #i