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Australia in Crisis: A New Really Bad Thing!

1 April 2010 Australia's Bad Things
cane toad

Regular readers will know that since the start of this year, I have reduced the number of posts from 5 to 3 a week. So these days, I don’t usually write a post on Thursdays. But today I have made an exception for two reasons. Firstly, tomorrow is Good Friday so I’m going to give [...]

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Are Australians the Friendliest People in the World?

3 December 2009 Australia vs UK
friends

I woke up in a hot sweat the other night. But that’s something you just have to get used to during the summers here in Australia. But while I was lying there, trying to get back to sleep, I had this thought. I didn’t actually address Vivienne’s comment when she said “I do love the [...]

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Record Numbers Quitting Britain

27 November 2009 Moving To Australia
Australia

That was the news headline that hit me first this morning when I fired up my Internet browser. Apparently the new figures which were released yesterday reveal that 427,000 people emigrated from the UK in 2008. That’s the highest number ever recorded. The figures are extraordinarily high because half of those who left were non-British [...]

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Queensland’s Top Iconic Locations

14 July 2009 Entertainment Australia
Big Pineapple

When I wrote the post It’s All Happening in Queensland, I looked at the first three categories out of 10 for Queensland’s top 150 icons. Those three categories were all about people and organisations. In today’s post I am going to look at the fourth category, which was locations. I was very surprised to see [...]

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The First Day of Winter in Australia

1 June 2009 Australian Climate

Today is the first day of June and whilst the UK is at the start of their summer, here in Australia it is the first day of winter. That picture was taken today at 4.10 p.m. about 3 minutes from where I live, looking towards an expanse of nothing much. Last week the temperature was [...]

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Sunday Lunch in an Australian Pub?

16 February 2009 Entertainment Australia

Australian’s aren’t “big” on pubs, which is a bit surprising. They love their beer. It’s standard practise to buy beer by the carton, 24 cans at a time. None of this woosy four pack stuff. CNBN.com, who had the most up to date information I could find, (September 23, 2008), say the Australians are the [...]

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