What do other countries think of Australia?

[Anomynous 167]

worse thing huntsman freaking spiders. what dont look at me like that. they are huge and always ide on the window at eye height when you open the curtain or blindes

Spoiler: totally not a picture of a huntsman

Ahck! A tarantula.

Yes I know about the genocide thing and I am disgusted by it, and any surviving decedents should have support but at the same time I'm not going to blame their decedents i.e. the current generation of Australians

Now to be fair, it wasn't genocide because they were concidered part of the native fauna. We did it for sport.
Unlike the yanks who went to war against the American Hindi after granting them sovereignty...

Actually australia REALLY isnt that hot
In fact its actually pretty cold for 3 quaters of the year. the 4th quater can get fairly hot though. As for the desert yo only find that in the center of australia but NO ONE lives there. Just about evreyone is on the coast which is far nicer. The insecs really arent that bad. Ive lived here for 6 years and NEVER seen a red back. In fact I only think Ive seen about 3 poisinous spiders.

My Vietnamese sister in-law from Viet Nam came here last January to visit . Following her first day here she wasn't to be scene without wearing 3 pairs of jumpers.

 

[Robert Sanders]

Between Mad Max, Crocodile Dundee, Crocodile hunter, and your wildlife, I always pictured a bunch of roughneck bad asses, and wouldn't have expected less from a country built from the convicts England didn't have room for. I'm just surprised to find out what a nanny state you guys have, but like the U.S., the politicians don't always mirror the people.

 

[CityofTreez]

shit, i've never met a spider i would be scared to stamp on

Good luck with this then;

Spoiler: Warning - Iz Big

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_funnel-web_spider

I crapped my self.

 

[Benny Blanco]

"Strewth! Fosters! Crikey! Neighbours! Crocodile Dundee! Steve Irwin! Can ya still see the shackle marks on me ankles?"

In all seriousness, we know Australia to be just like the mother country, but with better weather, more lethal wildlife and a deficit of ethnic minorities due to genocide and geographic isolation.

Also, whilst you have enough bar staff to export them here, you have an odd shortage of hairdressers- according to the points-based immigration system, this is pretty much the best way to guarantee acceptance without attending university.

Shortage of ethnic minorities? I live in Melbourne, and I can tell you that this is about the furthest thing from the truth.
Love it. Gillard is particularly useless, but she's a bit of an anomaly, and in general, our politicians are alright - at least better than America's.

Melbourne is pretty multicultural, it does have the biggest Greek population in the Southern hemisphere, as well as large Jewish and Lebanese populations. Melbourne is not exactly representative of Australia as a whole though. Also, the biggest group of foreign-born inhabitants is British- over twice the size of the next biggest group (Italians).

Still, point taken - I guess I'm looking from the unusual perspective of someone living in the most multicultural city in the world (London is joint 1st with NYC) and we're not exactly representative of the whole country in that regard either.

 

[Jacco]

I have never been to Australia, but from what I hear it's pretty much the southern hemisphere equivalent of where I live (Colorado, US) with weather and spiders which if true would mean I like it because i love Colorado.

I have, however, met a fairly large number of Aussies and they are some of the nicest most hospitable people in the world. And the Aussie accent is pretty much the sexiest thing ever.

 

[JaceArveduin]

From a US guy that's lived in the small town areas of Southern US, Crocodile Dundee seems to be the general stereotype we give you guys. (here in OK anyway)

 

[MASTACHIEFPWN]

I think this explains your country pretty well...

OT: I don't find anything wrong with you, nothing too exceptional either... EXCEPT SAXTON HALE!!!!!!!!!

 

[Asuka Soryu]

I think that it's Australian and has people from Australia. And there's things located in Australia. So to sum it up, I think Australia is Australia. But I could be wrong.

 

[Idsertian]

Pros: Your accents, closest thing to Britain outside of Britain itself (no ROI does not count), your hilarious and overzealous (if reasonable) protection of your biosphere, that Aussie Customs TV show (forget the name), your gorgeous women.

Cons: Hot as fuck, lots of nasties of varying species, I heard your politicians aren't too fond of games and I think this guy puts it best:

Spoiler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V4JYIOja10&feature=related

EDIT: I fail at YouTube embedding. Anyway, in short you guys are ok, but there's way too many many things that would rather see me dead.

EDIT 2: MASTACHIEFPWN mentioned Saxton Hale. I am inclined to agree.

 

[TheKramers]

I've heard mixed feelings about the country but i'd just like an honest opinion as to what everyone thinks about it.

I'm jealous, they got Dead Island and all the Ranger's Apprentice Books by John Flanagan first =p

Who is Saxton Hale? I'm too lazy to Google =p

 

[Anomynous 167]

"Strewth! Fosters! Crikey! Neighbours! Crocodile Dundee! Steve Irwin! Can ya still see the shackle marks on me ankles?"

In all seriousness, we know Australia to be just like the mother country, but with better weather, more lethal wildlife and a deficit of ethnic minorities due to genocide and geographic isolation.

Also, whilst you have enough bar staff to export them here, you have an odd shortage of hairdressers- according to the points-based immigration system, this is pretty much the best way to guarantee acceptance without attending university.

Shortage of ethnic minorities? I live in Melbourne, and I can tell you that this is about the furthest thing from the truth.
Love it. Gillard is particularly useless, but she's a bit of an anomaly, and in general, our politicians are alright - at least better than America's.

Melbourne is pretty multicultural, it does have the biggest Greek population in the Southern hemisphere, as well as large Jewish and Lebanese populations. Melbourne is not exactly representative of Australia as a whole though. Also, the biggest group of foreign-born inhabitants is British- over twice the size of the next biggest group (Italians).

Still, point taken - I guess I'm looking from the unusual perspective of someone living in the most multicultural city in the world (London is joint 1st with NYC) and we're not exactly representative of the whole country in that regard either.

I am sick of people using "Biggest X in the southern hemisphere" as a badge of pride. We ain't got no competition down here, so saying so is next to meaningless.

Melbourne is the 2nd largest Greek city in the world. There is only one city which is both bigger and Greeker than Melbourne. And that city is in Hellenic Republic/Greece itself.
Now that's a statement to wear with like a badge.

 

[BlueMage]

Us and the vast majority of the world. The standard is by far drive on the right, you and a few other oddball nations insist on driving on the left for some bonkers reason.

If we're going to go by "majority rules" then maybe America can consider changing their date format.

You know the one that they use and no one else, the mm/dd/yyyy one?

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to feed my kangaroo.

When ya'll, Britian and Japan drive on the correct side of the road we'll change our date format to one that looks COMPLETELY LOGICAL AND DERIVED FROM A SANE MIND

Fixed that for you

 

[ChupathingyX]

Hate to break this to you, but, we don't have bears here in Australia.

 

[PizzaSHARK]

I've heard mixed feelings about the country but i'd just like an honest opinion as to what everyone thinks about it.

Generally friendly people, generally hot women, but everyone there is insane to live there with so many of the planet's most venomous animals around.

 

[legion431]

Hate to break this to you, but, we don't have bears here in Australia.

Yes we do, Drop Bears.

 

[Jared Domenico]

From what I hear from Australians, it sounds a lot like my home state (New Mexico). Blisteringly hot, every form of life is out to maim if not kill you, and social conservatism is the rule.

In all, it sounds like a place that I can survive in, but would not want to live in for an extended period of time.

 

[Delsana]

Interesting question so here's the BLUNT truth.

1. A nation spawned by convicts and thus likely to have some interesting "convictions". (Haha see what I did there?)

2. A nation with censoring up the wazoo. (What's that you say? America is bad? Hah.)

3. A continent that literally and assuredly is one of the most dangerous places on Earth to even THINK of much less TALK about and heaven forbid visiting it on vacation, as you might DIE.

4. A country with a sexy accent that people make fun of while not being attracted to.

5. A place that had a war that no ONE knows about save from that movie "Australia".

6. A place with a fancy opera theater.

7. A place with MINIMAL ultra-modernization.

IMPORTANT EDIT:

Also, you are a militarized nation with an extremely skilled army that at the same time is because the entire nation is a "Commonwealth" or nation that is run by the government which is "allowed" by the military.

Military governor.

 

[BlueMage]

In short, Australia is Catachan. Except with less jungle.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

i wish. you only get 250 a fortnight if your studying full time, 480 if your studying part time and looking for work

The Gummint gives me over $700 a fortnight for being a crazyperson.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

Also, you are a militarized nation with an extremely skilled army that at the same time is because the entire nation is a "Commonwealth" or nation that is run by the government which is "allowed" by the military.

Military governor.

uh... whatnow?

Seriously... whuh?

I don't know whether to be amused or disturbed... so I'll settle for amurbed for the time being.


Edit:

5. A place that had a war that no ONE knows about save from that movie "Australia".

Actually, I'm pretty sure a lot of people know about World War 2. It was in the papers and everything.