Life in Australia – What it is Really Like – By BobinOz — What it’s Really Like Living in Australia

Today Tonight and A Current Affair

3 February 2012 Moving To Australia

What does it mean to be Australian? Here, in Australia, we have a couple of current affairs programmes. One is called Today Tonight and the other is simply called A Current Affair. They are both on every weekday evening after the news at 6.30 PM. One is on Channel 7 and the other on Channel [...]

Fireworks in Australia: An Australia & New Zealand Magazine Article

1 February 2012 Entertainment Australia

When I originally wrote this article for Australia and New Zealand magazine, it was highly topical. No prizes for guessing it appeared in their November issue then. Today it seems about three months out of date, but I like to think of it as being nine months ahead of its time. Remember, remember… When I [...]

The Price of a Night Out With the Boys

30 January 2012 Cost of Living - Australia

In many ways, it’s a great relief that the barbecue, or any kind of gathering in a friends back garden, has replaced going to the pub as the standard form of entertainment here in Australia. Because when you go round a friend’s house, you take a couple of bottles of wine, which will cost anything [...]

Our Australian Citizenship Ceremony and The Citizenship Pledge

27 January 2012 Moving To Australia

G’day! This is the 563rd post on this blog, and so far I’ve never started any of them with G’day. But today I speak to you for the first time as an Australian, so I just had to do it, didn’t I? The day started early, we had to be at the Brisbane Convention and [...]

Becoming an Australian Citizen

25 January 2012 Moving To Australia

Tomorrow is Australia Day. I won’t explain what that is, I’ll assume you’ve read my post about Australia Day from three years ago. Or perhaps you’ve read about the Australia Day party I went to a couple of years back. Last year, almost all Australia Day parties became charity events, raising money for those affected [...]

Life in Australia: Furniture and Fittings

23 January 2012 Life in Australia

Every weekend for the people living in Australia the routine is almost always the same. We arise to be greeted by a rapidly heating golden sun nesting in a clear blue sky. We gleefully pack picnics, Esky’s full of cold beers and bottles of wine, camping chairs, sunglasses and hats. We bundle our children into [...]

Are You Scared of Australian Creepy Crawlies?

20 January 2012 Australia's Bad Things

I think it’s an absolute miracle that I’ve lived here over four years and I still haven’t done a post on the TV program “I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!” hosted by Ant and Dec. Today, I’m going to change that. What spurred me into this action now? Well, two performances that are [...]

Australian Holidays and Popular Destinations…

18 January 2012 Entertainment Australia

On Monday I wrote about Things To Do During the Long Summer Holidays. That article was about a long weekend away, but what do Australians do when they want the biggie, the two week (or more) summer holiday. Well, I’ve written about those sort of Australian holidays before as well, but this is the article [...]