Living In Australia

Schools in Australia and NAPLAN

8 February 2012 Life in Australia

I have written quite a few posts about schools and education in Australia here on BobinOz.com. Like these….. State Education in Australia: Year 2 Homework – June 2011 Australian Education: A Half Term Report – March 2010 Australian Schools: Helping You To Choose – January 2010 Australian Schools: Looking Back on Prep Year – December [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A Happy New Year from BobinOz, Without the?

4 January 2012 Life in Australia

Three years ago on January the 1st, for some very crazy reason, I started this blog. The starting the blog bit possibly isn’t the crazy idea, but the date is. It means that I now spend every blog birthday nursing a hangover. My many thanks to Mark and Louise, the hosts, and everyone else who [...]

The Cost of Toys in Australia

19 December 2011 Cost of Living - Australia

A couple of years ago I did a cost comparison post between England and Australia on the price of toys. At that time, from the selected toys I looked at, Australia ended up being 11% more expensive than in the UK. You can read that post by clicking the following link: The Cost of Living [...]

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 [...]

Australian Cities: Most Expensive in the World?

24 August 2011 Cost of Living - Australia

A couple of weeks ago I did an update on the cost of living in Australia when I went grocery shopping again. I pretty much bought all of the same things I had purchased two years ago and was shocked to find that here in Australia, prices had barely changed during that time. So what’s [...]

The Cost of Living in Australia Update: Groceries

10 August 2011 Cost of Living - Australia

Just over two years ago I did what I referred to as “a meaningless grocery price comparison chart” comparing Australian food prices with those in the UK. If you want to know why I thought it was meaningless, read my original post called, rather imaginatively, The Cost of Living in Australia: Groceries. As you can [...]