What do you think you know about Australia?

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Come one! I know Australia has the best services for Autistics and Aspergers.
Now, I am simply curious to know what you all think you know about Australia!

I want to hear from Africans, Europeans, South Americans, United Kingdom...onians?, Yanks, Canadians, Asians, Kiwis and yes, even Sydneysiders. Admit it, Sydney, you know barely more about the rest of Australia as foreigners do.

Anycase, post! *shakes fist*

Well, I know that Surfers Paradise is over-rated to Aspies, and that we need to have a little more variety in our television production than children's shows, crime dramas and soaps. Oh, and we have in residence one of the foremost AS experts in the world, Dr Tony Attwood.

Would you like facts or opinions?

Hmm, what do I think I know about Australia?

Could you possibly narrow it down a bit please, there is alot I know as I live here!

I know it's darn hot in the summer, and we don't get enough rain. I also know that the people are really friendly.

Are those the kind of things you want to know?

I need a specific question about Australia to answer.

Australian politics and sport I know little about, so don't ask about those (I'm so un-Australian )

Not much, I know kangaroos live there, and you don't like rabbits.
You tried to kill them of with a virus, but they got immune, and yet you never thought of eating them.
(Rabbits are good eats)

I know of a family that was denied entrance into Australia for their autistic child. Because an autistic child may not work later and may not be a very productive member of society. So their plans to go and live in Australia were denied for that reason.

Okay, you've got too many rabbits, in too wide an area. See the flaw in your reasoning?

You have a point! Everytime I went to a german restaurant I had hassen pfeffer. It's a shame that one day I noticed, in the dark restaurant, that it was looking back at me. I haven't had it since.

They have a LOT of marsupials! Like the koala bear. I know koala bears stink. HEY, If I ate eucalyptus leaves all day I would stink ALSO! I know that they seem lethargic, can be noisy to get mates, and they can be agressive and active when needed. I know they have other creatures, like the tasmanian devil. I know they have their own dialect of English, though it is more similar to British English, and it has its own slang. I even know some of the slang.

Around 20 percent of Australians are descended from convicts, including me
You don't see many aboriginals anymore
The people are the same as anywhere else in the world (people don't change)
The desert is nice, as it's fairly devoid of people, except the aforementioned aboriginals scattered here and there

I know a lot about the fauna of Australia but less about the people.

I hear you like weird names and saying "G'day". And surfing.

That's about it.

Australia has a lot of great Olympic athletes, including John Landy and Cathy Freeman.

Australians have a penchant for engaging deadly animals and then dying from their injuries. Molestations of snakes, sharks, and crocodiles abound.

...and we know what Paul Hogan and Steve Irwin taught us amout Australia

Australia...hot with spiders and snakes.

All I know of Australia, I know from Men At Work's song Down Under

Edit: to clarify, I was just kidding, I know that they have dangerous wildlife, that Canberra is the capital and not Sydney, can probably find a few cities on the map and I think that Aussies have a messed up sense of distance due to living in such a huge country.

I learned from G'day! Teach Yourself Australian
in 20 Easy Lessons that the terms for your favorite
amber fluid depend on what state you're in when you ask
for it and what size of the brew you want.
The most dangerous wildlife of all are what infest Aussie
oceans in winter (blue-ringed octopi and sea wasps,
both of which have well-known for their lethal venom).

Apparently, the land bridge that connected Australia to the
rest of the world passed through what today is Antarctica;
that would be why marsupial mammals (as opposed to
placental mammals) that are relatively rare elsewhere
are still fairly common there.