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<p>Well Vic you have hit on an intricacy of the Aussie nature in that we argue a lot among ourselves. You get a public holiday for Australia Day, we love that; and they hand out Australia Day honours, 575 people this year and two dogs. We do a lot of stuff that is Australian; have barbies, go swimming and surfing, drink booze and sing aussie songs such as Walzting Matilda, I still call Australia home, I come from a land down under etc. A big think is to beat the English at cricket, as we often do.</p><p>Oh i forgot we can't agree among oursleves as to which day it should be celebrated on, 26 January but is it on the day; nearest weekend and what happens if it falls on a weekend and every state has its own ruling on it. If you are smart you can travel interstate and have it several times.</p><p>Another thing we can't agree on is daylight saving. You know we only have 6 states and 2 territories and we have 3 time zones but when daylight savings comes in, we have no less than 5 time zones, possibly 6. Western Australia is the oddest they go onto the same time zone as south east Asia, with little to do with the rest of australia at all.</p><p>Rgds Ian and thanks for your interest Vic.</p>
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