What the bloody hell......?

[izmeina]

Izzie has been snooping in the online versions of certain Australian papers
Found the cutest and snarkiest offering in the letters pages. Way too good to keep to ourselves



"WHERE the bloody hell are you?" seems a bit outdated. Surely a more appropriate and contemporary tourism slogan could be something along the lines of: "We will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances under which they come."
Richard Nathanson
Banksia Park, SA

Oh and Izzie advises any visitors - never mind the hairy scary spiderses or the sharks in the swimming pool. It's the rats in the sewers of Canberra that are scariest of all

Comments

[max-und-moritz.livejournal.com]

And there I was thinking platypuses where the worst that could assault you...

[acinonyxjubatus.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to plan a nice honeymoon this year! I'm thinking of Perth or Adelaide (Margaret River and Barossa)....but YV wants Sydney (well Hunter's not too bad) :-)

The Grand Oz tour

[izmeina.livejournal.com]

Izzie has never been to Sydney and has no great desire to either. After the recent sale of a Bondi Broom Cupboard for a ridiculous 3 million silver sickles - sounds like a veritable nest of yuppies - London with sunshine

But Adelaide - that is a different matter. The Barossa valley is way up on the Izzie Aussie must visit list - lots of tasty black inkpots and schmalzy Kraut wannabees and such. Such a shame that we have done so so little about ever getting there.

Curious to know what the general perception of Oz is in Malaysia - especially amongst folks who have never been there. (Did your Prime Minister flaunt his new credentials from Curtin or do most folks know it for the sausage factory that it really is? )

Re: The Grand Oz tour

[acinonyxjubatus.livejournal.com]

Curtin's got a fairly poor reputation amongst graduates; somewhat higher reputation amongst housewives who are looking for somewhere to dump their progeny for a few years.

Australia in general has a very good reputation in Malaysia despite recent politics; in the interior areas, they certainly remember the Aussies who came over in the 60s to 70s to build bridges, roads, etc.

Although the loony religious fringe would be anti-Australia (they're against anything not Muslim, the morons), most people quite like the idea of being able to go to somewhere very different, yet being able to find Malaysian restaurants everywhere. It helps that there's such a large Malaysian community there.

In fact, my brother's planning to migrate sometime in the next 5 years or so....