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I was scouted working at the register at McDonald's in Melbourne, Australia. I worked there as my first job, and a guy walked in and gave me his card. I was 16. I was skeptical, but I looked it up when I got home, and it was legitimate.
Andreja Pejic
Home
Me
Job
First
Gave
Melbourne
Guy
First Job
Looked
Got
His
Up
Australia
Walked
Legitimate
McDonald
Skeptical
Register
Worked
Working
Card
Australia was a very different world and culture from the one I left in Europe. Life was much more spread out. People drove everywhere. They built higher fences. Neighbours didn't interact so much.
Andreja Pejic
Life
Culture
People
World
Everywhere
Neighbours
Out
More
Higher
Drove
Built
Spread
Fences
Left
Australia
Very
Interact
Different
Much
Europe
Different World
Going home to Australia, it's good to get home, but it's kind of bad too because you get used to that way of life again and you have to come back to America.
Andrew Bogut
Life
Good
Home
You
Too
Back
Way
Kind
Bad
Come
Because
Australia
America
Get
Going
Going Home
Again
Used
In Australia, we point out a person's weaknesses as a way of saying 'I see you and I accept you'. If you do that with Americans, they instantly take offence.
Andrew Dominik
Saying
You
Way
Out
Weaknesses
See
Point
Take
Instantly
Accept
Offence
Australia
Person
American
There are people all over Australia who use their homes as hubs that they travel from, and they encourage their indigenous people to continue to stay there.
Andrew Forrest
Travel
People
Stay
Indigenous
Indigenous People
Over
Continue
Encourage
Australia
Use
Who
Homes
I'd like to see the University of Western Australia and the other four or five universities in Western Australia really excel through having some of the greatest minds in the world attracted to it.
Andrew Forrest
World
Other
Minds
See
Some
Having
Excel
Through
Like
Attracted
Greatest
Western
Australia
Five
Really
Four
Universities
University
Wealthy people in Australia tend to give, and give very quietly.
Andrew Forrest
People
Wealthy
Give
Tend
Australia
Very
Quietly
Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'
Andrew Forrest
Problem
Crushed
Worst
Thousands
Slowly
Australia
Close
Trying
Being
While
Little
Social
Disparity
Billions
Gap
Initiatives
Lives
Wasted
I've done my time in being broke in Indonesia. Eating Goat soup. Australia's a developed country, you've got a lot of taxes, rents are high and its quite difficult to survive as an artist especially when you are just coming up.
Andrew Jack
Time
You
Country
Difficult
Broke
High
Eating
My Time
Developed
Developed Country
Indonesia
Got
Coming
Soup
Goat
Lot
Up
Australia
Survive
Artist
Done
Quite
Just
Being
Being Broke
To Survive
Taxes
I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another.
Andy Goldsworthy
Life
Me
World
Energy
Earth
France
Running
About
Red
Vein
Over
California
Another
Australia
Taught
Place
Japan
Worked
Connects
Round
Flow
Britain
When I won my first Grand Slam in Australia, and we came back, I had much more confidence. I had much more belief in my game, about my improvement.
Angelique Kerber
Game
Confidence
First
Back
About
More
Had
Came
Australia
Won
Improvement
Grand
Grand Slam
Much
Belief
Slam
Australia is the place I know best.
Angus Young
Best
Know
Australia
Place
When we grew up, Australia was the land of opportunity; it really was.
Angus Young
Opportunity
Up
Australia
Grew
Land
Really
When we were younger and first starting out in Australia, we found that we sold more records by word of mouth because we were playing the bars, clubs, and small places and building a following. And as we got bigger, we still relied a lot on word of mouth.
Angus Young
Word
First
Building
Mouth
Sold
Out
Following
More
Small
Records
Because
Got
Still
Were
Lot
Australia
Bigger
Word-Of-Mouth
Places
Clubs
Younger
Bars
Found
Playing
Starting
We just say things differently in Australia - like torch. I'd ask, 'Can I have the torch?' It seems to fall flat when I say, 'Can I have the flashlight?'
Anna Torv
Fall
Say
Torch
Seems
Like
Australia
Just
Flat
Ask
Differently
Things
It was the corner sweet-shop in Australia that first piqued my interest in interior design. I went into this space with a mixture of apprehension and excitement as a child. It was filled, floor to ceiling, with the most incredible rounded glass bowls filled to the brim with bonbons, buttons, and sweets.
Anouska Hempel
Interior
Space
First
Design
Corner
Apprehension
Incredible
Excitement
Glass
Most
Bowls
Mixture
Australia
Ceiling
Child
Interest
Sweets
Filled
Rounded
Floor
Brim
Buttons
Australia has an economic interest in ensuring our cities have 21st century urban rail transport to reduce traffic congestion.
Anthony Albanese
Our
Ensuring
Cities
Economic
Reduce
Traffic
Australia
Interest
Urban
Century
Congestion
Transport
Rail
In my view, helping to feed a hungry world is Australia's greatest responsibility and opportunity in the 21st century.
Anthony Pratt
World
Opportunity
Responsibility
Hungry
Feed
Greatest
Australia
Century
View
Helping
I think Australia is an extremely relevant partner and a key instrument for the stability, the progress, and the support of the East Timorese.
Antonio Guterres
Key
Progress
Partner
Think
Extremely
Relevant
East
Support
Instrument
Australia
Stability
Western Australia is covered by granite, the largest single piece of Achaean rock that still lies on the surface of the, of, of the Earth, that's 2.5 to 2.9 billion years old. It's one of the most ancient and intact bits of the Earth's crust.
Antony Gormley
Old
Single
Earth
Bits
Ancient
Lies
Crust
Most
Piece
Rock
Surface
Still
Intact
Covered
Years
Western
Australia
Granite
Billion
Largest
I love Australia! I got a boot thrown at me there.
Art Alexakis
Love
Me
Boot
Thrown
Got
Australia
The support we get in Australia is phenomenal.
Ashleigh Barty
Support
Australia
Get
Phenomenal
I like Australia, but every time I'm there, I feel like everybody's being sarcastic because everyone's so nice.
Banks
Time
Nice
Every
Every Time
Everybody
Everyone
Feel
Like
Because
Australia
Being
Sarcastic
I thought I would come to Australia and learn to surf. Instead, I learned to walk.
Bari Weiss
Walk
Thought
Would
Instead
Come
Learn
Learned
Surf
Australia
It seems that people are tired of everyone looking the same on television. And this seems especially true for white people. Even white people are tired of watching the same white people. That's why we've been importing them from Australia.
Baron Vaughn
Tired
People
Looking
White
Everyone
Television
Seems
True
Been
Australia
Same
Them
Even
Why
Watching
You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
Barry Gibb
You
Else
Everywhere
Tops
Australia
Unheard
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