Things I still don't get after 6 months in Australia

[robinpud]

apart from the obvious one- WHY DON'T THEY BUILD PROPER HOUSES WITH INSULATION AND HEATING????

What on earth is Manchester and why is it on sale in lots of supermarkets- is it something about mancunians the Australains don't like?

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Thanks again Bloss, that's what I meant!

That is just chilling. Sort of genocide by bureaucracy - if you can get someone classified as not a person, you can do anything to them.

I think the South African government did something less dramatic, but similar in concept.

Getting back to the title of the thread, here's something else I don't understand.

When you're in a filter lane to turn left at the traffic lights and your lane turns to green but when you go to move, the pedestrian crossing at the junction has also just turned green so you can't actually move.

Then the pedestrians just saunter across with all the time in the world (I think this is an australian phenomenon) and by the time you can move, two cars get through the lights and thy're on red again.

What's that about??????

that happens in NZ too
then, once the pedestrians have crawled across, you have to give way to people turning right as well unless someone next to you is going straight over. is that the same in Oz?

we have lots of turn left anytime with care very few controlled with lights iyswim. So you can turn left as long as it is safe.