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Thursday, January 25, 2007

What it means to be Australian

In yesterday’s post, Mars asked me what it means to be Australian.
So here’s my take on it.
- Looking after you mates.
- Being kind and thoughtful to others.
- Inviting friends and strangers alike, into your life and your home.
- Like the Diggers of Anzac Cove, having a go and not backing down.
- Embracing others.
- Multi-culturalism
- Utilising our wonderful beaches, and exploring the outback.
- Being a country of pissheads, and being proud of it – I mean what other country has their former head of state holding the world yard-glass skulling record (Bob Hawke for those who don’t know).
- Rising from a penal colony full of convicts to becoming one of the greatest countries in the world.
- Having a limited population but unending supply of successful business people, sporting super stars and international talents.
- Having animals that don’t exist anywhere else in the world.
- Playing cricket in your back yard or swimming in your own pool.
- Safely riding your bikes in the street.
- Building cubby houses in the bush.
- Belting cane toads (although that probably Queenslanders only).
- Driving in the country and seeing kangaroos hoping around.
- Fantastic weather.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg...

5 Comments:

Blogger Julia said...

I love Australia!

7:24 pm  
Blogger surfercam said...

Same Julia, bloody love it!

3:00 pm  
Blogger Unknown said...

what's un-Australian then?

squirrels.

3:13 pm  
Blogger Mars said...

you forgot chicks in bikinis

11:12 am  
Blogger surfercam said...

Dot - squirrels are definitely un-Australian.
Mars - you are dead right. How could I forget that!

10:43 am  

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