The questions below about Australia are from potential visitors.
They were posted on an Australian Tourism Website and the answers are the actual responses by the website officials, who obviously have a sense of humor. If you have seen these apologies mate, but they're worth a rerun.  read more »

As funny as this is, I can't imagine how anyone could think they could get away with it. Gee, imagine if he "test drove" a Subaru Outback, who knows where that one would go.

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN0623312120080306?fee...  read more »

A New Zealander, Robbie Deans, from my home town of Christchurch in Canterbury, is now the head coach of the Australian Wallabies Rugby team, after being turned down by the NZRU for the All Blacks position as head coach. Robbie is the first foreigner to coach the Australian rugby team; although a number of Kiwis have previously played for Australia.  read more »

It seems that this bloke bit off more than he could chew. He had picked what he had obviously hoped was a vacant home and died in his robbery attempt.

It happened in the early hours of the morning, but unfortunately for him he tripped on the very instrument he used to to break the window and fell onto the jagged glass remnants and cut his own throat.  read more »

A heart attack victim in Melbourne, Australia,has died after paramedics from a broken down ambulance were forced to run two blocks with a defibrillator to try and resuscitate him, it has been reported.

The 56 year old man's death comes amid a bitter and now deadly dispute between the Metropolitan Ambulance Service and its members union concerning "unsafe" vehicles.  read more »

Farewell little "Pumpkin" we wish you well in your new life with Grandma in China.

She beamed into our lives through world TV news programs a few weeks ago; that poor little abandoned three year old at a Melbourne, Australia, train station. She was nick-named "Pumpkin" by Australian authorities, because of the Pumpkin Patch clothing she wore on that fateful night.  read more »

In Australia we celebrate Mother's Day on the second Sunday of May, and curiously 9 months later, we celebrate Father's Day on the first Sunday of September.

Today, September 2nd 2007, Aussies are recognising the contribution their fathers have made in their lives.  read more »

This is something you'd hear if you were around a mob(group) of blokes (males) and one of them decides to go to the toilet.

There are other phrases used in this way "draining the dragon" or "draining the swamp" - either way it works.  read more »

All horse racing was cancelled in Australia yesterday (except for Darwin), as officials caused a "lockdown" of horses all around the country as a result of an Equine Influenza outbreak.  read more »

We have two sayings that that make no sense to anyone who does not understand about our major department stores here. Myers, once the Myer Emporium but now referred to just as Myer is a department store familiar all around Australia. They have stores in all capital cities and some provincial areas.

Another store that existed in Melbourne some years ago is Buckley and Nunn.  read more »