User blog comment:Cpt. Carebear/Coming to realisation/@comment-1627289-20100206104927

PGB, gah... I don't feel like getting into an argument over what Australia is. Let's get this straight:
 * It's pretty much as flat as a pan cake (minus the East Coast)
 * Not all of Australia is deserts and shit like that, most of it is very fertile places
 * Uluru shouldn't be climbed due to it's cultural importance to the native Aboriginals that inhabit the area (their name escapes me though)
 * It's hot as hell in summer, and freezing cold in winter (yeah you thought you had climate change bad)
 * Flies number in their millions, and attack you, drinking the liquid in your eyes.
 * No one in Australia cares about Steve Irwin's death, we were more crushed by Peter Brock's dermise
 * We have bogans, about 3/4 of the population are bogans
 * AC/DC is Australian but isn't (ie the Young brothers were Scottish and moved here as a child, lead singer is British)
 * We have been cursed by Billy Ray Cyrus, by that I mean we adopted the mullet as one of the national symbols
 * We eat our emblem (the kangaroo and emu...they actually taste nice, so does ecidna)
 * There were once over 600 seperate Aboriginal languages, but that dimished with the settlement of the Europeans
 * We protected Australia, New Zealand and PNG when we fought the Kakoda track with the Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels (don't diss the name, these guys are legends)
 * We don't give a fuck what people think about us
 * We're not racist, we're not idiots
 * Australia, this is a known fact, absolutely hates Britney Spears

There, that's a bit about Australia as a whole, but it does vary from state to state and from territory to territory.