A look back at the year in words from the news-makers and the news-breakers.
January
18: "Speak English!" - Australian cricketer David Warner's demand to Indian batsman Rohit Sharma during a heated verbal stoush.
19: "It's kind of remarkable that somewhere in the world today, it's highly probable that a child is being born that is going to live to 150." - Treasurer Joe Hockey.
21: "Can you give us a twirl and tell us about your outfit?" - Australian Open presenter Ian Cohen was criticised for asking world tennis No.7 Eugenie Bouchard to do a spin in her outfit in her post-match interview.
25: "And to Luke, my little man, you did not die in vain and will not be forgotten. You are beside me on this journey." - Rosie Batty dedicates her Australian of the Year award to her 11-year-old son who was murdered by his father at cricket training almost one year before.
26: "We thought it was a hoax." - Federal opposition leader Bill Shorten responds to news that Prime Minister Tony Abbott has used a "captain's call" to knight Prince Philip.
29: "Texting, latte-sipping, keyboard warriors who frequent the tapas bars of Sydney and Melbourne." - Nationals MP Michael McCormack gives Tony Abbott advice on who he should stop reacting to before telling him to visit a country pub.
February
2: "Submarines are the spaceships of the ocean." - Independent Senator John Madigan.
2: "My message to the people of Australia is this is Back to Work Tuesday." - Tony Abbott dismisses speculation about his leadership.
5: "I can't tell you how ecstatic I am to be here. This is a moment I've rehearsed in my mind at least 400 times over the past, well, 400 days." - Australian journalist Peter Greste on his return to Australia after more than a year in an Egyptian prison.
9: "Good government starts today." - Tony Abbott after surviving a Liberal party room spill motion 61-39.
March
8: "We do not and have never used the Dutch sandwich." - Microsoft's tax chief Bill Sample denies using tax-minimisation schemes in the Senate inquiry into corporate tax avoidance.
12: "I've already signed up, when my turn comes, I go. I'm not nervous I've been waiting a long time." - Reported suicide-bomber and Melbourne teenage Islamic State recruit Jake Bilardi foretelling his actions in a Twitter exchange.
16: "Their words to me were 'something really bad is going on there'. And they said 'it smells like death'." - Animal Liberation Queensland investigator Hayley Cotton, who captured footage of live-baiting by greyhound racing trainers, talks about a tip-off she received about a property in Churchable.
18: "His life was taken by a worthless psychopath." - The ex-girlfriend of murdered Sydney businessman Morgan Huxley on his convicted killer Daniel Jack Kelsall.
19: "The Dr Goebbels of economic policy!" - Tony Abbott describes Opposition Leader Bill Shorten in parliament question time.
20: "The city was tested, it was challenged, but today is a strong reminder that we march forward." - NSW Premier Mike Baird at the reopening of the Lindt Cafe in Martin Place three months after the deadly siege.
April
22: "It was just horrific to watch, just to see your house crumble." - Dungog resident Colleen Jones watched her house wash away in the NSW floods.
25: "Wonder if the poorly read, largely white, nationalist drinkers and gamblers pause today to consider the horror that all mankind suffered." - SBS sports journalist Scott McIntyre was sacked for this and other controversial tweets he made on Anzac Day.
29: "They asked for mercy but there was none." - The Chan and Sukumaran families express their grief and anger at Indonesia's executions of the two convicted Australian drug smugglers.
29: "They were examples of the hope and transformation that can come about through reflection, rehabilitation and remorse. Their deaths at this time are senseless and unnecessary." - Foreign Minister Julie Bishop.
May
6: "We brought garbage trucks because the show is garbage." - Blacktown Mayor Stephen Bali explaining his council's protest at SBS' Sydney headquarters against documentary series Struggle Street which looks at life in the Sydney's western suburbs.
7: "I hope that your children, your grandchildren, your nephews and nieces never make a mistake." - The mother of Myuran Sukumaran in a letter to Indonesian prime minister Joko Widodo.
12: "We want people to spend, we want people to have a go." - Joe Hockey addressing media after delivering the budget.
14: "It doesn't matter if Johnny Depp has been awarded sexiest man alive twice, it's time Boo and Pistol bugger off home ... or we're going to have to euthanise them." - Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce barking about actor Johnny Depp bringing his pet dogs to Australia without going through Customs checks.
21: "Nope, nope, nope." - Tony Abbott refusing to consider resettling any of the more than 8000 Rohingya refugees who remain stranded at sea after being turned away from Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.
June
9: "The starting point for a first home buyer is to get a good job that pays good money." - Joe Hockey's advice to first home buyers.
22: "The Liberals now have just justified to many Australian Muslims in the community tonight to leave and go to Syria and join ISIL because of ministers like him." - Former terrorism suspect and convicted criminal Zaky Mallah on ABC show Q&A questioning the extent of the citizenship laws.
24: "Now, frankly, heads should roll over this." - Tony Abbott after a replay of the controversial Q&A episode.
July
3: "It's not even just that he's a high profile person, it's just absolutely terrible when families are torn apart in such tragic circumstances." - SA Police Superintendent Des Bray on the death of Adelaide Crows coach Phil Walsh, who died from stab wounds. His son Cy was later charged with his murder.
5: "I have lost half my family in a blink of an eye, nothing will be right with the world again." - Quinn Walsh's emotional tribute to her father.
7: "I'm prepared to use the Hopoate tactic." - Senator Glenn Lazarus, a former rugby league player, makes an eye-watering threat to the prime minister if he doesn't relent on CSG exploration.
9: "What I am concerned about is your credibility as a witness." - Commissioner Dyson Heydon accuses Bill Shorten of being non-responsive during the trade union royal commission.
9: "I think it's part of the rite of passage for a Labor leader that in Mr Abbott's government you get called before a royal commission." - Bill Shorten.
20: "I just saw fins, I didn't see the teeth. I was waiting for the teeth to come at me as I was swimming. I punched it in the back." - Three-time world surfing champion Australian Mick Fanning on fighting off a shark at the J-Bay Open.
30: "I've been listening to what the Australian people are saying and, no matter what anybody else has done, there's no excuse for what I did with the helicopter." - Bronwyn Bishop finally apologises about a $5227 luxury helicopter ride she charged to taxpayers and later repaid.
31: "So from here, if you continue to boo Adam Goodes, well, you're a racist and you're a bigot. And that would take this country back to the White Australia policy in 1967." - Fremantle coach Ross Lyon speaks out against relentless booing of Adam Goodes.
August
7: "Nothing went right at all today, that's for sure." - Michael Clarke following Australia being bowled out for 60 on the first day of the fourth Ashes Test at Trent Bridge.
17: "They can investigate all they like, I've got nothing to hide." - Auburn deputy mayor and controversial Sydney developer Salim Mehajer responds to critics after he blocked an entire street in the city's inner west without authorisation for his extravagant wedding.
21: "I think signing up to speak at a Liberal party function certainly gives the impression that you might support a political party." - Deputy Labor leader Tanya Plibersek on royal commissioner Dyson Heydon.
24: "It's carnage out there." - CMC Markets chief strategist Michael McCarthy described the Australian share market after it lost $60b in value.
September
3: "I mean, the Nazis did terrible evil but they had sufficient sense of shame to try to hide it. These people (Islamic State) boast about their evil." - Tony Abbott on IS.
6: "Faith without action is dead. This whole journey, I've never felt so alive." - Jarryd Hayne reflects on his journey to the NFL.
7: "He was roaring and then nothing. My last sound memory of him is 'rarr', and then it's nothing. It's just silence and he's vanished." - William Tyrrell's mother on what happened leading up to his disappearance a year earlier.
7: "He was revered by Australians of every sort. From the cabbies who drove him to Randwick and Flemington to leaders of government and industry, even the Queen." - Archbishop of Sydney Anthony Fisher speak at the funeral of legendary horse trainer Bart Cummings.
15: "Ultimately, the prime minister has not been capable of providing the economic leadership our nation needs." - Malcolm Turnbull announcing his challenge for the Liberal party leadership.
16: "This is a tough day, but when you join the game, you accept the rules." - Outgoing prime minister Tony Abbott after he was defeated 54-44 by Malcolm Turnbull in a party leadership vote.
October
1: "Everything is on the table." - Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull tells a mini-summit he will not rule in or out any economic reform.
17: "The gentlest of friends lost to an act of terror; a man, the manner of whose death stands in stark contrast to the gentle, honourable way he lived his life." - NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione speaking at police accountant Curtis Cheng's funeral. Mr Cheng died after Farhad Jabar, 15, shot him as he left work.
21: "Most people leave this parliament as a result of defeat, death, disillusionment or disgrace. We all have to work hard to leave with dignity." - Joe Hockey makes his valedictory speech.
28: "There was no way they were ever going to get off that property." - Acting Assistant Commissioner Clint Pheeney after father and son fugitives Gino and Mark Stocco were captured on a NSW farm.
November
3: "I want to say to everyone else, get stuffed, because women can do anything and we can beat the world." - Melbourne Cup winning jockey Michelle Payne hits back at her doubters following her superb ride aboard Prince of Penzance.
16: "ISIL is weak. I know it doesn't look like that now but it's the truth." - Host of Network Ten's The Project and prominent Muslim, Waleed Aly, in an address that has more than 30 million views online.
23: "Our community is waiting to wrap them up in our arms and show them the place where their children last were." - Esperance Shire president Victoria Brown on the families of three Europeans who died in bushfires near Esperance in WA.
