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Australian Schools: Helping You To Choose.

by BobinOz on January 29, 2010

in Moving To Australia

As I mentioned in my most recent post, which was about our Australia Day celebrations, the Wednesday following Australia Day saw all of our school kids returning after the long summer holidays.
First -the back to school news.
How was Elizabeth’s first day at REAL school? As you probably know, she’s been at real school for a [...]

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The Australia Day Party Is On!

by BobinOz on January 27, 2010

in Entertainment Australia

I mentioned on Monday that I’d been invited to an Australia Day party but wasn’t sure whether it would go ahead in view of the tragic events surrounding poor Doug the koala.
But with true Australian spirit, we pressed on and we partied!
But first, what is Australia Day?
Fortunately, I explained a bit about that in my [...]

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In Memory of Doug, the Baby Koala: Nov 2009 – Jan 2010

by BobinOz on January 25, 2010

in Australia's Bad Things

It’s been a tough weekend here in Australia. On Friday, just a couple of hours after I posted my roundup of the news, Doug the baby koala passed away.
Tomorrow is Australia Day here, a national holiday and a day of celebration. In light of poor Doug, it will be a true test of this nation’s [...]

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Australia – A Nation of Immigrants

by BobinOz on April 7, 2009

in Australia vs UK

Those are not my words, I saw them on a TV advert. I can’t even remember what the programme or product was, but I knew how true those words were as soon as I saw them. After all, I’m one!
I have no wish to get into the history of Australia here, there are plenty of [...]

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We Interrupt This Holiday for…erm… A Holiday!

by BobinOz on January 26, 2009

in Life in Australia

Today is January 26th and January 26th is
Australia Day.
I’m not going to go into too much detail about Australia Day because 1) You can find out all you need to know by typing “Australia Day” into Google, like I did. And 2) It’s Australia Day, it’s a national holiday. I should be swinging in my [...]

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