What do you like about Australia?

Here are a few things I like about Australia:

(Note: These are my observations IN GENERAL about the country. Of course there are exceptions, dickheads, tools, racists etc, but comments are generally speaking)

** Absence of snobbery - ive spoken to people who talk about the class system in England and abundance of snobs in certain parts of the country. In the main, Aussies are fairly down to earth.

** Climate - generally very good compared to a lot of places (even though I've ranted on the forum about the pisspoor summer we're currently having lol)

** People are quite similar across the country (general attitude, culture, accents etc). In America, the culture in New Orleans and Alabama is very different to New Jersey for example. In Australia, we largely talk the same, sound the same, think the same. I travel across the country for work and don't feel like I'm entering a whole new continent when i go interstate. In some ways the US diversity thing is good, but i like the feeling that there is a fair bond across the country with Aussies.

** Diversity - kind of opposite to what i said above, but I'm referring to the multicultural aspect of the country, which is a good thing. You know the country has to be pretty good if many other different nationalities are keen to make a new life here.

** Mature/advanced/ developed nation - proper first world nation with plenty of good work being done in many fields....medicine for example (not that i know anything about it lol)


Essay and a half.........what do you like about Oz?

The women

I love the bush and countryside
I love that everywhere you go you can meet a friendly face
I love that multiculturalism has brought variety to Australia
I love that we can feel safe
I love the good Aussie ocker humour and way of life
I love the opportunities that the country has to offer for work and education

And most of all I love that Bundy Rum is Australian and I will be cracking one at lunch!
Cheers everybody and have a safe and happy Australia Day

I like the fact that Oz is an island and we are far away from Europe and such.

I love the ocean around us, everywhere, spent nearly 7 years in the Pilbara and now back in Perth, there is nothing more Aussie than beers, camping, BBQ's...on the beach!!!
...and of course bundy

I love the fact you can 'get away' from it all, and its usually only a couple hrs of driving and your in the middle of no where...........ahhhh the serenity this country has

BBQ's & BEER

DKD said:

What do you like about Australia?

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It's HOME!


Fadi.

I like the beaches.

I like some of our music, especially the 70's/80's Aussie rock.

My Country - Dorothea Mackellar


My Country The love of field and coppice,
Of green and shaded lanes.
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins,
Strong love of grey-blue distance
Brown streams and soft dim skies
I know but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!

A stark white ring-barked forest
All tragic to the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon.
Green tangle of the brushes,
Where lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree-tops
And ferns the warm dark soil.

Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When sick at heart, around us,
We see the cattle die -
But then the grey clouds gather,
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady, soaking rain.

Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the Rainbow Gold,
For flood and fire and famine,
She pays us back threefold -
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze.

An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land -
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand -
Though earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly.

The food, our produce is second to none.

The Hulk said:

My Country - Dorothea Mackellar


My Country

The love of field and coppice,
Of green and shaded lanes.
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins,
Strong love of grey-blue distance
Brown streams and soft dim skies
I know but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!

A stark white ring-barked forest
All tragic to the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon.
Green tangle of the brushes,
Where lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree-tops
And ferns the warm dark soil.

Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When sick at heart, around us,
We see the cattle die -
But then the grey clouds gather,
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady, soaking rain.

Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the Rainbow Gold,
For flood and fire and famine,
She pays us back threefold -
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze.

An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land -
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand -
Though earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly.

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I never understood why we did not put this to music for our national anthem.

Every place on earth has something magical about it. But we have far more than our fair share of magical beautiful things here.
There's no place like home.