Life in Australia

Dipawali, The Queensland Multicultural Festival and Free Stuff

17 October 2011 Life in Australia

There are two things I know I have written about before on this blog. The first is that Australia is a nation of immigrants. The second is that Australia is full of free stuff. This weekend the two came together with a couple of multicultural festivals. First up was…. Dipawali: The Indian Festival of Lights. [...]

Parking in Australia. Not So Free Anymore?

10 October 2011 Life in Australia

It was a long time ago, over 2 1/2 years in fact, when I last spoke about parking in Australia. If you live in a town or area where finding a parking space where YOU want to park is difficult, you might like to go back and read that post. In it, I explain a [...]

Australians and Bad Language: Crikey!

16 September 2011 Life in Australia

As some of you may know, I have a no swearing policy on this blog at BobinOz. But today, I want to talk to you about swearing. It was quite apparent when I first moved to Australia, that Australians have a slightly more relaxed attitude to what you might call “bad language”. Certain words seem [...]

Common Colds and Flu in Australia

12 September 2011 Life in Australia

I’ve been waiting to write this post for a good couple of years now. It’s not a post I’ve not been looking forward to writing, but it is a post that I knew I would write one day. That day is today. So how is it that I had the idea for this post so [...]

Australia Post vs Royal Mail

26 August 2011 Life in Australia

If you were to search Google for the “most famous postman in the world”, you would find more than one reference to Postman Pat. I just did it, well, it’s not a very sunny day here in Australia, and found the big nosed postman in positions 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 10. That’s [...]

What Do Australians Do When They Are Angry?

22 August 2011 Life in Australia

After the excitement of last weekend’s whale watching trip, which was closely followed by Wednesdays Ekka day out, I decided that I should take it easy this weekend. So I did. Others didn’t though, as you will see. Question: What do Australians do when they get angry? Like most countries, Australians protest and, occasionally, riot. [...]

The Scariest Story You Have Ever Heard!

17 August 2011 Life in Australia

This really will be the most frightening story you have ever heard. But, for it to qualify as frightening for you, you have to be either: a) Currently living here in Australia as a Permanent Resident (PR) or…. b) Hoping to move here soon as a Permanent Resident. If either of these applies to you, [...]

Living in Australia: Our Third Full Year

1 August 2011 Life in Australia

I launched this blog on 1 January 2009 with a post and video called Our First Full Year Living In Australia. Unsurprisingly, the video was about our first full year living in Australia, which would have been the calendar year 2008. I followed that up on 4 January 2010 with another post and video, this [...]

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I'm BobinOz and I moved to Australia in November 2007 after living in England for a very long time. Why did I move and what's it like here? All this and more answered right here at Bobinoz. Click here to read more on my about me page.