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“You're very beautiful, dear', she said, 'what nationality are you, Indian?''No', I smiled, 'I'm Aboriginal.'She looked at me in shock. 'You can't be,' she said.'I am.''Oh, you poor thing,' she said...”
“You're very beautiful, dear", she said, "what nationality are you, Indian?""No", I smiled, "I'm Aboriginal."She looked at me in shock. "You can't be," she said."I am.""Oh, you poor thing," she said...”
“I am not your dog that you whistle for; Im not a stray animal you call over, and I am not, I never have been, nor will I ever be, your baby!”
“Vast skies in the Australian desertwaves that don't movewe slide surf glide like condors”
“It was easy to imagine the beginning of time here, but also, perhaps, its end.”
“I dont want to be just your friend, Willow.She took a step closer, her body pressing suggestively up against his.Then what do you want to be, Re? she asked in a husky whisper.Holding her stare, his...”
“Jane, who is much better at reading guide books than I am (I always read them on the way back to see what I missed, its often quite a shock), discovered something wonderful in the book she was read...”
“I mean it. Aside from the old coastal cities, which in Australia are still very young themselves, what you have is a vast stretch of wilderness, wholly natural, with all the horror that nature brin...”
“I recall a podcast featuring American white nationalist Jared Taylor. He claims that every important decision in their lives - where to live, whom to marry, where to send their children to school -...”
“It seems to me that the good lord in his infinate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable- hope, jokes, and dogs. But the greatest of these was dogs.”
“There are no wastelands in our landscape quite like those we've created ourselves.”
“Question not, but live and labourTill yon goal be won,Helping every feeble neighbour,Seeking help from none;Life is mostly froth and bubble,Two things stand like stone,Kindness in another's trouble...”
“Australia is filled with roundabouts and everyone drives on the wrong side of the road. In the end we decided to split up the work and I feverishly watched the GPS and yelled, "Left! Right! ROUNDAB...”
“NATO has a special relationship with countries far away from Europe: Australia, Japan, South Korea. They have joint projects and programmes which are being implemented without these countries becom...”
“He was on the edge of a cliff. And he wasnt jumping, he was diving, a huge swan dive, like those famous cliff-top divers in some exotic place hed seen on television once. Only they landed safely, b...”
“Those English always say, "Look before thou leap". But, as is customary with the English, that is looking the wrong way. I say, Ranga, to look before thou look. Then, when thou actually looks befor...”
“In 2011 Indias Test team was crowned as world crickets leading side for the first time in its history. The foundations for this global domination can be traced to a decade earlier, when a career-de...”
“There was one thing no one considered, however: Australia was populated by Australians. While the rest of us were trying to adapt to a world that suddenly seemed bent on eradicating the human race,...”
“I hope the next time you get a double-decker strawberry ice-cream cone the ice cream part falls off the cone and lands in Australia.”
“Valkyrie walked to the back door, which hadn't been closed properly, shut it and locked it. There was now a baby in the house, after all. She couldn't take the chance that a wild animal might wande...”
