100 Great Things About Australia

46. Beautiful deserted beaches in the middle of nowhere

 

47. The fact that daylight savings doesn't apply to the whole country.

 

It's not like that in melbourne

 

48. Koalas - the only creature on earth that can ingest enough eucalyptus leaves to experience the high. (Thats why you cant get them out of the trees without them getting mighty cranky)

49. Aboriginal culture

50. All the tiny (and sometimes dank) lanes in Melbourne's CBD that always manage to hold: a) a really wanky nightclub
b) a cafe/hole in the wall where milk crates are the seats and the chai heavenly
c) a local alternative fashion designers outrageously overpriced shop
d) a record store
e) an internet/interactive game cafe
f) all of the above

 

51. The word 'unAustralian' and its meaning.

52. The entertaining riots in and around sydney each summer

 

53.Self-sufficiency magazines, Grass Roots and EarthGarden. I have written a few articles for Grass Roots.

54. Alternative news magazines, covering the fields of: Health Alternatives; Suppressed Science; Earth's Ancient Past; UFOs & the Unexplained; and Government Cover-Ups such as Nexus, New Dawn and Hard Evidence.

55. Roy and H.G.

 

56. A day off for a horse race (Melbourne Cup)


57. Our own national footy league. GO THE BLUES

58. Nicknames for where we are from Mexicans, Sandgropers, canetoads etc

59. How we abbr people's names especially Bazza, Shazza, Tommo, Wazza, Mick

 

60.How it rains through summer to cancel out the heat (sometimes).

61.Bisexual PawPaw Farms (somewhere near Nelson's Bay)

 

62. byron bay
63. blue mountains (i hope no one has said this... hmm..) which includes
a. three sisters
b. many rainforests
c. many nice waterfalls
d. national parks
e. little arty poet scenes (now my generation is polluting these with graffers and ravers, all little kids trying to gain respect off some other scum who they look up to)

64. KANGAROOS!!!! they are so cool
65. platypuses, possibly the worls strangest animal

 

66. Kevin "bloody" Wilson

67. Steve Irwin

Aussies crack me up.

 

68. Our sporting culture
69. The Big Day Out

 

70. The Dreamtime Legends.

71. Australian Films (I don't remember if this has been written already...Sorry if it has!)

72. I reckon the fact that we just happen to get alot of spiders and snakes that are fond of biting people is worth a mention.

 

THe Mighty Blues! I hope we do better this Year!


73: The Skate parks. Everyone is just laid back and their to have fun.

 

Criminals from England, deadly spiders and snakes, Hungry crocks , deadly sea creatures including Sharks, lots of desolated sand Deserts , Strange natives, well at least your not bored to death like living in England.

 

Beaches!

 

74. Me and you of course!
75. I personally love south australia's winter... sooo cold...
76. Victoria's no fail rain showers. I swear, I crossed the NSW / VIC border and not even 100 metres into Victoria, it started to rain!

 

77. Mushrooms have been said so has grass I've never had the chance to try D.M.T so how about nice cold Victoria Bitter ? REMEMBER IT'S ALWAYS A FRESH WIND THAT BLOWS AGAINST THE EMPIRE.

 

the so fucking-nice easy-going attitude you got..that suited me 100%!

 

the ability to have a person in an upper class social position swear in every day sentances with out being looked upon like a heathen, and at the same time for someone like myself saying the word bloody to said person and being admonished by them, bloody wonderful