"I cannot accept your premise, Socrates. Affectability... progress... are vanities spawned by fear. A vanity spawned by fear. The aim of what you call civilisation is a man in a smokin' jacket, whiskey and soda, pressing a bottom... button, to destroy a planet a billion miles away, kill a billion people he's never seen."

"You'd think a bloke who'd won a silver medal at target shooting could hit himself in the head at a range of three inches."

"It's possible to live forever in The Yabba without money. As you probably noticed, some of the natives are very... hospitable. Take Janette, for instance. Now, there's a very interesting biological case. If she were a man, she'd be in jail for rape."

"One thousand dollars. Just... just one more spin... and you're out of it. Out of teaching... out of Tiboonda."

"Jock, you damn near saved my life just now, how 'bout... completing the job by giving me a cigarette, huh?"

"Charlie: You've, uh... got snakes in yer pocket, have you?"

"Shall I satisfy your curiosity? I'm a doctor of medicine, and a tramp by temperament. I'm also an alcoholic. My disease prevented me from practicing in Sydney. But out here it's scarcely noticeable. Certainly doesn't stop people from coming to see me. I charge no fees because I'm not interested in money. Anyway, I'm unreliable. But I'm accepted socially because I'm an educated man... or character. I get my food from my friends... my requirements in beer. Which, with some measure of self-control, is the only alcohol I allow myself."

"Al Thomas as Tim Hynes"

"John Mellion as Charlie"

"Oh, I'm a bonded slave of the Education Department... I'm a schoolteacher."

"Jacko Jackson as Morley"

"There's a nice, simple-minded game."

"Dick: [to Tim Hynes, referring to John] What's the matter with him? He'd rather talk to a woman than drink?"

"Donald Pleasence as Clarence F. "Doc" Tydon"

"Chips Rafferty as Jock Crawford"

"Sylvia Kay as Janette Hynes"

"Gary Bond as John Grant"

"Jack Thompson as Dick"

"People walked out of it saying, "That is not us!" [with an English accent] We all thought we spoke like that, really. We didn't actually have an Australian accent. And there was none of that sort of brutality; there was none of that sort of harshness and madness that, of course, is very much a part of our lives."