Just wondering
What is your view on Australia? What do you think of when you think Australia?
Answers regarding 1950's onwards would be great!
SGAUS Wed 03/09/08 10:13
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Sun, sea, freedom, space, outdoors, different wildlife/fauna, cheaper lifestyle, comraderie due to happier people.......excellent Gov keeping 'trash' out of country and laws from English system.
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Spiders that hide in the toilet!
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Friend of mine is Australian and married an English woman.
They decided to move back there but after visiting she decided she couldn't live there. I think top of the list was what she saw as an extreme macho culture.
They're now happily living in NZ
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I spent over 13 years threre and think of it fondly , love it ;-)
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Well I have never been to Australia so only would agree with others.
Australians especially cricketers however are hypocrites and government has double standards. They play in India when there are bomb blasts; they are happy to play in Sri Lanka the place where suicide bombing was most probably invented; they carried on playing in Oval when there were bomb blasts about couple of miles away in July 2005. But they do not want to go to Pakistan although,
1. Trouble in Pakistan is at least 700 miles from where they were supposed to play.
2. Pakistan always gave all the teams’ presidential security.
3. It was even declared safe for the cricket by the ICC
4. There has never been a single attack in Pakistan on any sporting event let alone cricket which even terrorists watch there
5. I challenge any outsider to get into the hotel where cricket teams stay in Pakistan.
However in Australia this is the level of security other teams get,
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/cricket /ashes_tour/article1375426.ece
end of rant. Thanks
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Large sparsly populated country.
Cricket
Tinnies
Largly criminal based history except for indiginous pop.
Strange animals / killer spiders
Strange cars
Male chauvanism (probably untrue)
Barbies
Hot at Christmas
Aborigines
Rolf Harris
A cross between UK and US.
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Am not a cricket fan......dont understand the game so only know the headlines in media.
It's always the Pakistan cricketers who whinge when their team lose or are reprimanded. All the flag burning antics on tv is so childish and unsportsman but gets mass publicity.
Few play with un-sportsmen.
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Too many sheilas and brucies!!!!
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Sorry for going off the original question but,,,,,,,,,,,
For the kind attention of Terambulan
http://sify.com/sports/fullstory.php?id=147496 38
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/inter national/australia/2587565/Australia-refuse-to -play-in-the-ICC-Champions-Trophy-in-Pakistan- --Cricket.html
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/spo rt/cricket/australia-disappoints-pakistan/1254 247.aspx
In the end first of all there are no Talibans in Pakistani cities and then as usual Pakistani govt is to blame who sometime infest Pakistan with heroin and sometimes with terrorists for being a front line state only to fight a war for the countries who would not even back them for a cricket tournament. Yes so you are right perhaps Pakistan should say to the Taliban that Ok do whatever you want to do in Afghanistan and bomb blasts in Pakistan will stop within hours.
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Australia~ The biggest open prison in the world! LOL
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I love Oz, wish I was back there now, good times :-)
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but Newsdesk, Brits eat sheep, which certainly should be their national emblem... anyway, keyplus, triggerhippy is right, no cricket match has been attacked (tight security) but NZ cricketers have fled the country after a suicide bomb that took place near their hotel, so I can't blame the Aussies for having severe doubts.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/197876 1.stm
Yes, their culture is rather macho (cricket being a good example again) but as individuals they're generally nice people. I don't know about keeping trash out of the country - any amount of Brits and South Africans seem to get in - but they soon find if you don't work you don't eat, which is why some Brits go home again. Note their Olympic chief's comments on GB's swimming successes: pretty good for a country with no swimming pools and no soap.
erm, to answer the question: Uluru, Great Barrier Reef, Sydney Opera House, kangaroos loose in the top paddock.
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Funny beer adverts and sunshine
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Its not the bombs they are scared of, it’s the smaller bundle of $$$$$$$$$$$$, here you go at least one of them decided to open his mouth….
Pakistan, of course, has always been regarded as a bit of a hardship posting - unfairly, as it is a marvellous test of a touring cricketer's mettle. But just now, cricket values, as well as western values, are somewhat askew. By making players rich beyond the dreams of mammon, for example, the Indian Premier League has naturally increased their scope to discriminate between assignments. Only mouth almighty Andrew Symonds has so far had the nerve to say it, but every cricketer must feel the sensation in some degree: why tour Pakistan, where every bus backfire sounds ominous, when you can drop in on India, where too there are bombs but you can pull down seven figures in six weeks
Full report here……
http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/magazine/conten t/story/366186.html
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My idea is of lots of space for everyone, friendly people and nice big men. I imagine it is lovely, remote, peaceful and to watch a sunset every night....wow.
However my friend bought a house there and flitted between countries for years, said it is like a council estate in the sun, and came home permanently in the end. He said the people were loud and coarse.
I used to run SYHA hostels in Scotland and while we welcomed Germans, English, French, Japanese as they all made lovely considerate guests, we dreaded the Ozzies coming especially their Haggis tours. They would be up all hours keeping the whole hostel awake, would pee the bed and generally be inconsiderate to others.
One village, Kyleakin was overun by 6 Haggis tours each day and was known as the most drunken town in Scotland. It made radio 1. People were getting ****** and doing toilet and having sex everywhere, on the green, on people's doorsteps......I'm not a prude, but that was what it was like....the ozzies were just like Brits abroad. The type you see on TV and cringe.
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