It’s all about being friendly when driving out in “woop woop” (the middle of nowhere) 🤗 Driving across a lot of Australia 🇦🇺 involves traversing not just hundreds but thousands of kilometres of roads in near-empty deserts. This huge part of Australia is known as ‘the Outback’ because, you know, it’s out back there. Once […]
Did you know that Tina Turner has been one of the biggest contributors to Australian culture? 🦘 Honestly, her impact has been huge! Here’s how… Go to any Australian wedding or social event and you’re bound to hear the rock guitars that herald Tina Turner’s 1973 hit Nutbush City Limits. The long intro provides enough […]
Are you a fan of the cult TV comedy show The Office?🕺And which version: the UK one 🇬🇧? The US one 🇺🇸? The French one 🇫🇷? The Indian one 🇮🇳 or any of the other 13 variants made? 📣 News in is that an Australian 🇦🇺 version of The Office will be hitting our screens […]
The biggest news to hit Australia 🇦🇺 this week has nothing to do with any natural disaster🔥or a major political scandal 🗯. It’s something far, far, far more groundbreaking… One of Australia’s most iconic lollies 🍬 (psst… “lolly” is the Australian term for “candy” or “sweets”) will be, to use the food wholesale term, deleted. […]
🎉 50 years ago today, the Adelaide Festival Centre, the premier performing and visual arts venue and precinct in Adelaide, Australia, opened. The centre to this day remains one of the symbols of Adelaide. 🇦🇺 🎭 I know what some of you are thinking… it looks like a boxy version of that more famous Australian […]
Did you know that Tina Turner has been one of the biggest contributors to Australian culture? 🦘 Honestly, her impact has been huge! Here’s how… Go to any Australian wedding 💍 or social event 🎉 and you’re bound to hear the rock guitars 🎸 that herald Tina Turner’s 1973 hit Nutbush City Limits. The long […]
Last Saturday Australian 🇦🇺 🎭 comedy legend Barry Humphries passed away aged 89. You might know Humphries better as Dame Edna Everage 👓🌺, the vicious-tongued housewife-turn-international gigastar from the Melbourne suburb of Moonee Ponds (yes, such a place does exist). What is less acknowledged is that as one of Australia’s most widely known cultural exports, […]
Now this might sound a bit random 🤨 but this is something you’ll hear all the time, in all places… in department stores in Australia 🇦🇺. How come? 🧐 In most English language-dominant countries, “Doona” will be in reference to the popular Israeli-invented baby car seat that converts into a stroller/pushchair/pram 🚼 “Manchester” would be […]
Eshays and Adlays: the latest bunch of Pig-Latin-speaking, Nike-wearing young bogans (vilified poor working-class people) to cause massive moral panic in Australia 🇦🇺 My 11-year-old Aussie nephew warned me the other day that the new skate park 🛹that the council is building near his home is going to bring all the “eshays” there. Now that […]
Bunnies are considered cute and loveable… except in Australia 🇦🇺, where they’re a major scourge🤬. Famous Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby (check out her special Nanette on Netflix) even makes mention of this, to much comic effect, in her latest show Body of Work. After humans, rabbits have been the most catastrophic species introduced in Australia, […]
