I think it's great your so interested in other country's social and political system, lots of people aren't and they just assume that everyone will think/behave the same way they do.
I have a great independent in my electorate (Andrew Wilkie) so I've been voting for him a federal elections and then voting green in…

Honestly, none of our political parties are up to scratch. I've always voted Green but I'd honestly never want them to run the country because they're too ideological in their thinking and they really struggle with the actual nuts and bolts of policy making (ie correctly costing policies).
Jane Caro is pretty cool,…

Well, I'dd suggest staying away from our political discourse right now. It might make you cry. Mr Crash and I are always raging about the state of our country. Australians are so god damn embarassing. Rabbit is a redneck sitting on a pile of shit and thinking it's a throne.

Toesocks are the best! THE BEST I TELL YOU! I love each of my little piggies to be wrapped up tightly in individual containers :P

The Gonski review is... gone-ski :( Abbott has decided not to put those recommendations into action (while cutting funding to education!Yay!). But yes, all independent schools receive some government funding, though they're not fully-funded by the government like public schools.

It did. It was like the perfect storm erupting in a spewed comment with a small, but crucial, error. End of the world!!!

Whoops! Reading comprehension fail. In my defense, it was very early when I read that and my brain had not had it's required dose of caffeine.

What. The. Ever. Loving. Fuck. IS WRONG WITH SOME PEOPLE? At what point does your brain go "I know, beating a 3 year old with a hammer is an AWESOME IDEA!".

I love the physical Tasmania... but.. some of my fellow Taswegians are.... not so desirable.

Yup. People who use "unique" spellings in Australia are called Bogans and seeing as her mother contacted 3AW (shock jocks is an understatement) first, I'm fairly confident in calling her a bogan.
What happened was wrong, but the woman is still a bogan who can't read, seeing as she had the curriculum before it started…

We elected John Howard 3 times. He is basically the equivalent but slight smarter (and by s;lightly I mean that he can actually pronounce Nuclear correctly but not much else!)

We should come up with sister states for Australia and America. I'm from good ol' Tassie (wooo!), I wonder which American state is most like mine?

NOT ALL LIBERALS....

You just repeated what the original comment said?

That makes it a touch to Oedipal for my tastes...(because, there's obviously an optimal amount of Oedipal overtones...) .

Okay, I have no idea if anyone will see this, but I need to blurt it out anyway and hopefully get some feedback/opinions/solicited life advice.

Not ALL middle-aged men...

This makes me grateful to be Australian, where all of our schools have uniforms. Private schools have complex uniforms with blazers, hats etc. Public schools have grey or black pants and a coloured polo (usually white, blue or yellow). You can buy these for about $5 - $25 a piece at back to school time. Seriously,…

Except that he addresses those double standards ALL THE TIME in his stand-up. He had a whole bit about how women are much braver than men because we continue to date men. It starts something like this: "This number one killer of men is heart disease. The number one killer of women is men". He acknowledges his…

yes! I was just discussing that in a tutorial the other day.