to wonder what, culturally speaking, australia has ever given the world?

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really.
apart from neighbours, peter carey and patrick white?
anything?

You can't count the Sydney Opera house, it was designed by a Dane

aussiesim. i have posted earlier on that i've never been to australia. i haven't critisized australia at all. and i think i've been pretty thorough in looking into all 10 pages of posts about a country i know little about. i don't see why you think you should have to 'defend' it.
sorry to have upset you so.

and biddulph is english anyway!

Dame Edna
MICHAEL HUTCHENCE and INXS
H20, just add water (my daughter is obsessed with it)
Crocodile Dundee
MEL GIBSON
Kylie
Jason

Toni Colette, one of my favourite actors.

Lantana, one of my favourite films.

Was Ruth Park an Aussie or a Kiwi? I know she was married to Darcy Niland, who was definitely an Aussie. I love Ruth Park's novels - they make me laugh out loud.

Procrastinatingparent - my Sunday nights have never been the same since watching Seachange. I live in hope that one day, someday, it will appear on Sky, and I will be very happy.

Actually, that's another thing I miss about Oz - the ABC shop.

Robet Helpmann was mentioned earlier

Crowded House are from NZ, not Aus. Well, the songwriter(s) are.

Surprised no-one has mentioned Mental As Anything yet

actually I did not forget Sir Robert Helpman

Ruth park was born in NZ but spent most of her life in Aus.

find it hilarious that it is seen as such a cultural wasteland by those who think they know and yet our largest immigrant group is people from the UK

meant to say it was you who remembered him Eidsvold

dweezle: I own all of Seachange on DVD, bought by a loving DH (who actually loves it too) who is trying to stop me being too homesick. Would be thrilled if it appeared on Sky so that I could bore everyone here to tears by telling them to watch it, but not holding my breath ...

Actually I think I miss Playschool too. Did any one mention that in this this thread? Possibly the most low-tech kids TV ever. Not on here so obviously can't count as cultural contribution.

who gives a shit

it is sunny there

exactly. Who needs culture anyway, when you can take your kids to a sunny beach and lie on the sand eating ice cream (a golden gaytime of course ).

OP is obviously in the extreme.

astrophe dh laughed the first time he saw golden gaytimes - he also has issue with cheese called coon.

astrophe for me it has to be a jelly tip ice cream. yum!!!!!

oh yeah, forgot about coon! But how cheap is cheese though!? Here (uk) it costs £6/kg for the nastiest slimey sainsbos basic cheese - so $15 a kg - I'm sure it used to cost me $7 for 1kg of coon. (Am I deluded? Am I going to have a rude shock when we go back to Sydney in November?)

can't remember what I paid for cheese the other day. Things have gone up a little but still good cheese for reasonable price

-I should have a look at woolies online and have a drool. Are you in Brissie?

had a little look - seems to be $8 per 750g, so I am a bit deluded afterall. Things look so expensive as the numbers seem so high, but after being converted to £ they are cheap. Yipee!

cool still SSS. no reason at all for OP. pure silliness.
its been a good thread though. some of my family are living there now so will get to pay a visit sometime i hope.
whereupon i shall be starting a thread entitled 'good things to do in perth please..'.

What about Humphrey B Bear.

And Mint Slices...

(sorry if done before!)