[Jenisoisy]

Australia, nanny state of the Modern World.

[DoctorTOneery]

Asher, just for you, I have extracted this little quote from the above article.
"People still want to go to Australia, more so than anywhere else."

Australia, the preferred destination for the discerning migrant.

[Emedgella]

Many people know what they want.
The top shelf stuff.

[alicewong]

I used to enjoy beating up the Lebs back in the day.

[ardsdelinq]

BTW Al, it's pretty easy to understand what he's saying. It's satire, yes, but it's easy to follow satire.

[Khcyhshq]

What's Adelaide like? .... that Adelaide is the part of Australia most like California. Is that true?

In terms of climate it does resemble parts of California, and has a hinterland full of vineyards too. The architecture- it's very Victorian/Edwardian Anglo-Saxon in places, but with some eye-catching pieces of Art Deco/International style as well.

Good for 'boutique' cheeses and breads and has an arts festival and a museum/art gallery complex with its very own copy of Piccadilly Circus's 'Eros'.

I recommend the Red Ochre Grill for modern Australian dining with the addition of lots of indigenous products :

New York Times Review
One popular place for “up-market bush tucker” — food with an Aboriginal twist — is this restaurant, overlooking downtown from the riverbank. Here, depending on the current menu, you can dig into kangaroo fillet with local chili glazes and tasting platters featuring a sweet ’n’ sour range of scallops, beet root confit, and dumplings with seasoning from the Outback. I liked Adelaide so much, I went more than once...

[Romarionsion]

I don't want to drink Fosters for the rest of my life thanks.

[citalopram]

I'd heard these so-called Aussie beers we get here don't event exist over there.

[fgfblog]

budweiser FTW.

[QWNPdpr5]

Wrong...Lebs are lebs.

[forexsoft]

Looks too bloody hot for my tastes.

It's a continent, man. There has to be a cool part some where even if it is the flattest and driest continent there is still a lot of it.

[ATTILAGLIC]

You could always have a VB or buy an actual good micro brew.

VB is foul.

[soajerwaradaY]

Git art me cuntry.

[Kokomoxcvcv]

Sydney gets more rain than London. A friend who moved from London to Sydney said it was the first time in his life he'd owned an umbrella.

They've moved back now, 'cause they said they missed things like intelligent conversation and culture. Constant obsessions with beer and sport got dull. As did 70s attitudes to race and sexuality.

[herawaq]

Sydney gets more rain than London. A friend who moved from London to Sydney said it was the first time in his life he'd owned an umbrella.

They've moved back now, 'cause they said they missed things like intelligent conversation and culture. Constant obsessions with beer and sport got dull. As did 70s attitudes to race and sexuality.

It's easier to use a brolly in Sydney because it's real rain, not the aerosol drizzle you get in London.

[nofkayalk]

The grass is always greener on the other side of the world.

[prehighaltitudesjj]

The entire country is an over macho cultural and intellectual desert IMO. Been there, done that, now happily living in the UK.

As I lived there for five years, I can truly attest that this opinion is the equivalent of a load of wombat dung.
Cultural and intellectual desert ?

Melbourne alone has an excellent gallery and museum dedicated to fine art, along with smaller museums in places such as Bendigo and Ballarat, where not only 19th/20th Century Australian work and the work of Koori artists is displayed, but also European, Asian and American work too.

Then there's the National Gallery in Canberra- home to the iconic 'Blue Poles' by Jackson Pollock, and currently exhibiting the 'over macho' costumes of the Ballets Russes...


http://nga.gov.au/Home/Default.cfm

The Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide http://www.artgallery.sa.gov.au/agsa/home , Adelaide's Biennial Arts Festival, Melbourne's Film Festival 2011....

That's without the excellent library service I used in Melbourne, where I had great conversations with the librarians about modern British writers- they were very interested in Monica Ali and Zadie Smith, for instance, and also in writers such as Walter Mosley and Alasdair Gray and others too numerous to mention.

Try to stop recycling the same old tired clapped out cliches- or at least get some new ones.

[Abedgebeefs]

The people I'm talking about were living in Sydney, not Melbourne.

Totally wouldn't be surprised if it was different in different places, we have the same in the UK after all but there's a big difference between there being cultural stuff available, and people generally visiting them or talking about them all the time in every day life. And it was a comparison with London, which is an unfair comparison with most places in the world.

MOBIUS you don't half know how to shaft anyone who is on your side of the debate don't you.

[VanDerSmok]

As I lived there for five years, I can truly attest that this opinion is the equivalent of a load of wombat dung.
Cultural and intellectual desert ?

Melbourne alone has an excellent gallery and museum dedicated to fine art, along with smaller museums in places such as Bendigo and Ballarat, where not only 19th/20th Century Australian work and the work of Koori artists is displayed, but also European, Asian and American work too.

Then there's the National Gallery in Canberra- home to the iconic 'Blue Poles' by Jackson Pollock, and currently exhibiting the 'over macho' costumes of the Ballets Russes...


http://nga.gov.au/Home/Default.cfm

The Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide http://www.artgallery.sa.gov.au/agsa/home , Adelaide's Biennial Arts Festival, Melbourne's Film Festival 2011....

That's without the excellent library service I used in Melbourne, where I had great conversations with the librarians about modern British writers- they were very interested in Monica Ali and Zadie Smith, for instance, and also in writers such as Walter Mosley and Alasdair Gray and others too numerous to mention.

Try to stop recycling the same old tired clapped out cliches- or at least get some new ones.

Fine Art is not a sign of intellectuality. It's typically more indicative of pretentiousness. I gather you are a tremendous fan of fine art.

[yxn2dC07]

I know.