“I like Australia, but every time I'm there, I feel like everybody's be...” — Banks Quote

“I like Australia, but every time I'm there, I feel like everybody's being sarcastic because everyone's so nice.”

“It's that beautiful thing to love your weaknesses, your insecurities, and then put them all on blast. That's why I started writing, and that's why it was so hard to do it in public.”

“I just think it looks so cool when a woman has a dirty martini. She looks so powerful.”

“My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I was born in Katmandu, lived there until I was eight, and then moved to Australia with my mother and father. So yeah, I'm very mixed up, been to many different schools.”

“To be a member of the Labor Party is to be an optimist - optimistic about the future of Australia, optimistic about the ability of government to make a difference.”

“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 becoming members of NATO.”