The following is a list of Australian state and territory slogans. Many can be found on motor vehicle number plates.
- New South Wales - First State (previously The Premier State), Towards 2000
- Victoria - Garden State, The Place to Be, On the Move
- Queensland - Sunshine State, Smart State, Beautiful one day perfect the next
- Western Australia - The Real Thing (previously Golden State, State of Excitement, Wildflower State)
- South Australia - Festival State, Better by Bike, The Wine State, The Defence State, The Creative State
- Tasmania - Apple Isle, Holiday Isle, Natural State (also Your Natural State), Explore the Possibilities
- Australian Capital Territory - Nation's Capital (previously Heart of the Nation and Feel the Power)
- Northern Territory - Outback Australia, The Never Never, 'The Difference is Opportunity
The following is a list of Australian state and territory nicknames.
- New South Wales - Cockroaches'
- Victoria - Mexicans (South of the Border), Gum Suckers
- Queensland - Banana Benders, Cane Toads
- Western Australia - Sand Gropers
- South Australia - Crow Eaters
- Tasmania - Taswegians, Apple Eaters
- Australian Capital Territory - "Roundabout-Abouters"'
- Northern Territory - Territorians
- This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, australian, state, territory and/or slogans:
“Shea—they call him Scholar Jack—
Went down the list of the dead.
Officers, seamen, gunners, marines,
The crews of the gig and yawl,
The bearded man and the lad in his teens,
Carpenters, coal-passers—all.”
—Joseph I. C. Clarke (1846–1925)
“Shea—they call him Scholar Jack—
Went down the list of the dead.
Officers, seamen, gunners, marines,
The crews of the gig and yawl,
The bearded man and the lad in his teens,
Carpenters, coal-passers—all.”
—Joseph I. C. Clarke (1846–1925)
“The Australian mind, I can state with authority, is easily boggled.”
—Charles Osborne (b. 1927)
“The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“We found ourselves always torn between the mothers in our heads and the women we needed to become simply to stay alive.With one foot in the past and another in the future, we hobbled through first love, motherhood, marriage, divorce, careers, menopause, widowhood—never knowing what or who we were supposed to be, staking out new emotional territory at every turn—like pioneers.”
—Erica Jong (20th century)
“The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)