Australia

Pros: open spaces - unique wildlife
Cons: non

Now this is really a classified conversation, but since I trust you I will tell you what happened. This morning I got a call from the Prime Minister - nothing unusual about that. "Yes John, ow ya going, mate?.....yes..yes..of course they do...hey, I just...

Pros: Space, space space
Cons: nil

There is just no doubt about old paleface, white chops, the white man. For tens of thousand of years the Aboriginals had kept Australia pristine. They understood the land. They new fire was essential to the propagation of many Australian trees - and they...

Pros: essential information - accuracy undoubted
Cons: none

Are you aware that from here i.e. both Adelaide and Melbourne, you can fly over Antarctica?

You can rent a light aircraft and just head south until it gets bloody cold and when you see all this white stuff below, you know you are getting close...

Pros: Sheer talent
Cons: not one

If in the unlikely event you find this epistle not up to my usual standard, it is all the fault of fellow epinionator Nick Peters, known commonly as NFP.



Now Nick is an American but it's not his fault - it was just an accident of...

Pros: Very special places
Cons: nil

Ever been somewhere that has got IT. That weird feeling that doesn't frighten but has the hairs only half standing on the back of your neck. A warmth pervades your body as you approach, no matter what the weather.


The air is just not the...

Pros: easy on water
Cons: none

I am not particularly fond of anything that needs four legs to stand up. Oh, except maybe a mouse because they feed cats, which in turn feed dogs making an easier target. Because of the four-leg bit, I love Kangaroos and some humans are okay too.
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Pros: So much to see, from desert to rain forest to fabulous cities!
Cons: A long trip to get there!

Australia, that far away continent, so many of us dream about it and hope to get there some day. But what do we really know about it? Putting it into simple terms, most of us probably think of it as follows:

A - for Adventure;
U - for...

Pros: as modern as any country.
Cons: nil

Just say you and I were the very first people to walk on to Australia. And just say we knew how big it was.

Now if you said to me in two hundred years this overgrown lump of dirt would have twenty million people living at one of the highest...

Pros: wide open spaces
Cons: none

Will the Koala survive this one - we shall see. PLEASE NOTE - this review was planned to be published in January, but has been moved forward as a service to you, dear reader


When I was a little Aussi, about seven years old, my...

Pros: open space, warm
Cons: none

a country such as I firmly believe has no parallel on earth's surface. --The famous Australian explorer Charles Sturt, 1844


Okay, so whats your excuse this time. We have allowed the Pacific Pesos....er...Australian Dollar to fall...

Pros: humour, ease, simplicity
Cons: none

Review Topic:  Overview

Let me first say how gratifying was the response to part one. But, and I hate buts, we now have Americans eating toads (huge frogs), sleeping with snakes, sucking on dead Dingo’s dongers(dogs penis) and...

Pros: open spaces
Cons: nil

Review Topic:  Overview

For vacations, as in the U.S., distance versus time available is the main enemy. Unless you want to be busier than a bricklayer in Beirut, it is simply not possible to see these countries in a month, or...

Pros: A great place to visit
Cons: none

NOTE; definition of all words can be found in the Australian Maquarie Dictionary or for the bone lazy - at the end.

The best part about living in Australia is that it is very cheap. There are lots of Kangaroos and rabbits to eat, and every...

Pros: people
Cons: none

The real differences between Australia and the USA


Well I'll be a bull ant in spring. Why a bull ant? They have no morals!

Now, today marks the 23rd. week of sweat and toil in this hallowed place, and all of it done...

Pros: easy to follow, informative
Cons: none

Review Topic:  Practical Information

GUIDE TO SPEAKING AUSSI.

I have been asked many times, well er once, well.. ya never know when I might be, just how I convert Australian to American so that my fellow epinionators...