Press
21-11-1996
Bill Clinton Mentions Silverchair
(White House Press Office)
Remarks By The United States President To The People Of Australia (Excerpt)
Royal Botanical Gardens Sydney, Australia
White House Press Office
This is a remarkable community and a
remarkable nation. In this new global culture that we're all
experiencing, Australia's contribution has been far out of proportion
to its population -- in modern art, in learning, in music, in theater,
in opera, in the cinema. The novels of Patrick White, Thomas Keneally,
David Malouf; the paintings of Sidney Nolan, Russell Drysdale, Utopia
artists; the films of Baz Luhrmann, Peter Weir, and so many others. And
according to the young people in my group, bands like Midnight Oil and
silverchair.