HOW AUSTRALIA HAS REACTED TO THE PARIS ATTACKS:
"I was lying just next to one ... I really was not in a comfortable position at that moment." - Australian boy Oscar Leader, 12, tells of lying next to a bloodied body on the floor of the Bataclan theatre in Paris as two gunmen shot terrified victims.
"They were very calm, very methodical, very slow. I watched the guy reloading. They weren't in there shooting like in an American movie. It was finding a target and then shooting and then finding the next target and then shooting." - Oscar's father John Leader, who along with his son was forced to lie among the dead in the theatre.
"We are confident Emma will make a full recovery, physically, but obviously there's quite a long road ahead for Emma mentally." - Sam Gunner on the recovery her niece Emma Parkinson faces after being shot in the hip at the Bataclan.
"It's an attack on our freedom as much as it was an attack on yours." - Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to France's foreign minister Laurent Fabius ahead of the G20 summit in Turkey.
"These recent incidents highlight the fact that current strategies to deal with the threat of terrorism are not working. We call upon all people of goodwill to stand against fear-mongering and injustice." - The Grand Mufti of Australia, Dr Ibrahim Abu Mohammed, says racism and Islamophobia must be addressed to help fight terrorism.
"Today we're all to some degree French, as we stand with the people of the great French republic in their sorrow." - Governor-General Peter Cosgrove after being the first to sign a condolence book in Canberra for victims.
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