Australians

It’s Easter Bunny Time in Australia…

22 April 2011 Australia's Bad Things

Except for one thing. Australia and Australians aren’t best buddies with bunnies. In fact, the little fluffy, furry, foot thumping, floppy eared, warren dwelling mammals are a pain in the fauna in the land down under. We hate them! It’s illegal to own a rabbit in many Australian states. But why do we have such [...]

The Impact of the Floods in Australia

26 January 2011 Life in Australia

Today is Australia day. Last year I joked whether Australia Day would go ahead because of the tragic events surrounding Doug the baby koala. That’s all we had going on back then! That story was BIG news! But this year the news doesn’t mention koala’s much and we have a real tragedy to recover from [...]

Australian’s are Strange People, or is it just a Bizarre World?

29 October 2010 Life in Australia

Last Sunday we popped over to Fortitude Valley. We are having a Halloween party tomorrow night and Mrs BobinOz deemed that we were short of one tall drinking table out in the garden. So on Saturday we went-a table shopping and found the table we wanted in a store over at Jindalee. It was called [...]

Australia in Crisis: A New Really Bad Thing!

1 April 2010 Australia's Bad Things

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 [...]

Are Australians the Friendliest People in the World?

3 December 2009 Australia vs UK

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 [...]

Record Numbers Quitting Britain

27 November 2009 Moving To 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 [...]

Queensland’s Top Iconic Locations

14 July 2009 Entertainment Australia

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 [...]

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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