So the census night has passed. I filled in the form online and sent it off. Apparently, 90 people a minute were sending in their census forms online at one stage. Pretty impressive! Anyway, I thought I’d show you my own personal InfoGraphic created via the government’s Spotlight website: http://spotlight.abs.gov.au/ You can create your own […]
While London burns and the world markets crash, Australia is having political problems of its own. The PMs ratings are down thanks to her Carbon Tax and new refugee laws and Labour is way down on it’s latest poll. Not that it’s really a problem for me – I can’t vote anyway! But more importantly, […]
So Australia is the dumb blonde of the world. Well, according to Simon Anholt and at least 12,271.7 Australians anyway. Apparently Australia has a one dimensional image and even the smallest incident could be bad for the country. The example he uses is the attacks on the Indian students studying in Australia. He notes that […]
Damn work has been keeping me away from the blogging stuff… . Anyway, I just discovered an interesting poll run by HSBC bank of the top places in the world for expats to live in. Canada came in first, Australia second and Thailand third. But, the surprise (not for some) is South Africa sneaking in […]
To prove to my old* friend 6k that I am not making up strange place names, I thought I’d do a little research into weird Australian places. Well, I was overwhelmed at Google’s response! We have the usual strange places – Amphitheatre, Foul Bay, Come by chance, Mount Buggery (!), Wet Beaver Creek (!), Middle […]