THE LUCKY COUNTRY

DESPITE ITS RATHER INAUSPICIOUS BEGINNINGS, AUSTRALIA HAS BECOME ONE OF THE BEST COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD TO LIVE IN.

The economy is strong, and the quality of living high. The air is fresh, and the water clean.

Sydney, the largest city in the country, enjoys 230 days of sunshine per year. Practically every major city in the country is located on the coast, with many miles of golden beaches close at hand.

The Australian passport is one of the best in the world to possess.

Notwithstanding the native wars against the Aborigines, the only real conflict on home soil was a battle between humans and giant birds... the Emu Wars. Or the Wojna Emu, as they would say in Polish.

Surprisingly enough, the emus won.

These days Chinese, Indians, Brazilians, Russians and Poles aplenty are moving here, working as programmers, mobile app developers, accountants or engineers. I have met many of them, in my years as an English teacher, and given them some advice about how to get visas and so on, the tests that you need to pass, the paperwork you need to fill out. While they might worry about the dangerous wildlife here, I tell them it is not really a problem. You are far more likely to die in a car accident, than be killed by a poisonous snake or shark. Actually, drowning has become a serious problem in summer months, as many foreigners don't know how to swim.

Australian History

THE PARADOXICAL THING about talking about the history of Australia is that, from a traditionally Australian point of view, there is no such thing as history and historical time. The Australian Aborigines lived in two times only: primeval times, in which all life came into being, and the present. There was no past, no history, and the future barely figured in their thinking. There were only two times, the primeval Dreamtime when all the mountains and rocks and animals and humans were created, and there was the Now... (For the full guide to Australian History, click here.)

Beyond the capital cities see https://t.co/q5uIOnzSo6 #SurvivalDay
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Australian English

BEING A YOUNG nation, Australia is not endowed with the patchwork of regional dialects found in the United States or Britain. Geography does not influence speech in any meaningful way; one regional dialect covers the entire continent. Apart from the ethnic dialects, there are said to be three sociocultural varieties of Australian English: broad (Ocker), general, and cultivated... (For the full guide to Australian English, click here.)

The City and the Bush

One of the fundamental dichotomies to Australia is expressed in the phase "the city and the bush". "The Australian bush was made in one of nature's more relaxed, even casual moods," wrote Robin Boyd, in The Australian Ugliness (1960). Manifested tree, in Cape York peninsula

Jacaranda trees (although not native) are a beautiful sight in spring...

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