How would you describe Australia in your own words? (Only Aussies, please!)?

Question

If you had to explain the best and maybe the worst features of your country to an outsider, (which you are) how would YOU describe it.

No Wikipedia pastes PLEASE! I could go there and research myself. I'd like to hear how a true native describes their country not some research paper.

In response to Mordak, I don't see how I could've seen those government ads... I'm Canadian. Which is why I'm asking about the country, duh!

Answer 1

the best thing in Aus land= freedom
the weather can be nice
although we are going to have to pay more for our water because of the drought, Australia would have it's faults just like other countries but I don't see them.might be a few gangs in some places but as i said i don't see anything bad. i feel bad for some aboriginals, the true ones who still live on reserves as they have it tough because of alcohol & bad health etc

Answer 2

Have you not seen our governments advertisements "where the bloody hell are you". If you had you would have a good idea what its like here! By the way the "native" Australian is an "Aboriginal" or "Indigenous person".

Anyway, we are pretty much a cosmopolitan society and in the main are very tolerant. Our population has large percentages of English, Irish, Greek, Italian, Vietnamese, and representatives of just about any country you can name. This collection of different cultures has broadened our food choices so that we don't just go to restaurants to experience different styles of food, they have become part of our staple diet.

We have mountains, snow field, desserts and wonderfull beaches. Most of the population live around the coast, so water activities are a major past time, surfing, swimming, diving and scuba/snorkeling etc. There is a great variety of marsupials, but no, they are not found bounding down the high streets every day!

We have plenty of parrots and colourfull bird life, snakes, lizards and also many imported animals that have become part of our landscape, notably, camels, horses, feral cats, foxes & others. We live 300 meters from the ocean and I take my dog for a walk to the beach most days and often see Dolphins, and seals only metres from the shore. Great fishing here to. Well had not intended to write a book, it's agreat place, come visit some time.

Answer 3

Describe Australia

Answer 4

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I really can't refine it down to one thing or entity. In fact, I'm anti-entity, a reductionist maybe. To paraphrase professor Dawkins, at the bottom we may find cold indifference, no love or hate, no guiding "hand", but oblivion. Science continues to confirm that the properties of this random, quantum universe are just what we would expect to find if there were NO creator. A universe more multifaceted than we can imagine, teeming with life in every galaxy perhaps, but totally oblivious and unaware. It takes sentient life to be aware of what physics has wrought. Nobody of course knows about what tweaked the initial conditions to come up with a working universe, one that will eventually evolve life, and sentient life at that, but it only had to happen once against astronomical odds. You see an arrow embedded smack dab in a bullseye and you think, "wow, what a great shot." Not really. First I shoot the arrow, then I paint the target around it. To me the idea of a "personal god" is ridiculous and smacks as typically human. Take the ages-long geocentric mindset for example. Unless it's all about us it means nothing. Well, I'll allow we could be right about the last half of the preceding sentence, as unpalatable as that may sound. The universe doesn't need a reason to exist. Naturally we try to ascribe reason to external (and internal) phenomena, because we are reasoning creatures. Legends in our own minds, so to speak.

Answer 5

big and beautiful. I live in southern Tasmania but came from Sydney and I've seen most of this country. I would describe Australia as the whole world wrapped into one small package. Why would you want to live anywhere else.

Answer 6

Im not native, but im British, and i moved over their with my mom for several years before moving back.

My mother, a Nurse, was treated with the utmost respect for being who she was, and she was easily accepted.

I, however, was never accepted into the 'Beach hut' life of the area we lived in (A place called Darwin Harbour, in central Sydney)

The impression i got was one of continuos competition, a strange form of Brotherhood an an almost universal acceptance of Racism towards immigrant workers, non-white of course.


Needless to say, we returned home soon after

Answer 7

try wikipedia