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Portal:Military history of Australia/Quotes/12 "For dash and gallantry the bloodthirsty Scots, Australians and Canadians led the way, with the impetuous Irish close behind. The Australian to my mind were the most aggressive, and managed to keep their form in spite of their questionable discipline.
"Australian troops had, at Milne Bay, inflicted on the Japanese their first undoubted defeat on land. Some of us may forget that, of all the allies, it was the Australians who first broke the invincibility of the Japanese army." — Field Marshal Sir William Slim. (3 August- 1 September 2006) "Shoot straight, you bastards! Don't make a mess of it!"
Mateship is regarded as an Australian military virtue. For instance, the Australian Army Recruit Training Centre lists the "soldierly qualities" it seeks to instill as including "a will to win, dedication to duty, honour, compassion and honesty, mateship and teamwork, loyalty, and physical and moral courage."
The Australian comic has died at the age of 89 after years of performing on both stage and television ‘Don’t judge Australia by the Australians’: Memorable quotes from Barry Humphries and ...
Australia: No official motto. Formerly Advance Australia. [7] Sporting chant, "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, oi, oi, oi!" Austria: No official motto. A.E.I.O.U. is often seen as a historical national motto. The meaning is debated, but the most well known meaning is Austriae est imperare orbi universo (Austria's destiny is to rule the world). [8]
Rather, Australia's economic prosperity was largely derived from its rich natural resources and immigration. Horne observed that Australia "showed less enterprise than almost any other prosperous industrial society". [3] In his 1976 follow-up book, Death of the Lucky Country, Horne clarified what he had meant when he first coined the term:
Blainey writes about how the tyranny had been mostly surmounted and may have even worked in Australia's favour in some ways. In one of the book's early chapters, Blainey challenges the notion that Australia was colonised by the British in the 18th century solely to serve as a place of exile for convicts. Blainey's assertion that broader ...
Down Under is the British title of a 2000 travelogue book about Australia written by best-selling travel writer Bill Bryson.In the United States and Canada it was published titled In a Sunburned Country, a title taken from the famous Australian poem, "My Country".