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Quotes from The Story of Australia's People: The Rise and Rise of a New Australia — Geoffrey Blainey

born 1930 Australia

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Innovation is usually not a gigantic step but a series of small jumps involving various enterprising people whose names are soon forgotten.

The Story of Australia's People: The Rise and Rise of a New Australia (2016)

The birth of a nation called for many fathers, none of whom could be pre-eminent, and when Parkes died the federation was only a balloon floating beckoningly in the air.

The Story of Australia's People: The Rise and Rise of a New Australia (2016)

Menzies was the first - and maybe the only - national leader of whom it could be safely said that he was capable of rising to the top of almost any ladder he dared to climb.

The Story of Australia's People: The Rise and Rise of a New Australia (2016)

Perhaps no Australian politician, to this day, has made such a mark for so long on the global stage as Hughes achieved in the first half of 1919.

The Story of Australia's People: The Rise and Rise of a New Australia (2016)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Geoffrey Blainey (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.