Is Australia the best country on earth?

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Little Miss Big Mouth

We are the BEST country in the UNIVERSE!!!!!!!!
First place in the world to have a secret ballot in elections (1856)
First Place in the world to give women the vote. (1894)
First country in the world to beat America in it America's cup.
Only country to have attended every modern Olympic games.
The first country to employ skiing as a sport. (1863)
The Australian crawl. Until the 1890's competetive freestyle was done with the head out of the water. (Remember how Tarzan used to swim in the movies?) Australian Dick Cavill popularised it and enabled it to be accepted in world class meetings.

Inventions from Australia......

The bionic ear, a device that enables some deaf children to hear.
Flexible wine casks... the bag in the box.
The boomerang. Ancient weapon of the aboriginies. Other cultures have throwing sticks but none came back to the thrower if it missed the target.
The Notepad. In the whole history of paper, it had been sold and used in single sheets until in 1902 JA Birchall thought it would be a good idea to stack a pile of half sheets together, back it with cardboard and glue one end.
Making the world's first notepad.
The Electric Drill was the invention of Arthur James Arnot, who patented it in 1889.
Postage stamps. The world's first pre paid postage system was introduced at Sydney in 1838.
The world's first refrigeration plant was an Australian invention of 1858.
To our collective shame, the worlds first bathing beauty contest was held in Australia in 1920.
The famous "black box" flight recorder for recording aeroplane movements was invented in Australia in 1958.
Also in 1958 the worlds first regular 'round the world' airline service was begun.
The inflatable aircraft escape slide, which becomes a raft if the aeroplane ditches in water was an Australian invention of 1965.
The Automatic letter sorting machine - 1930
Two stroke lawn mower.
The rotary hoist washing line.
Lithium as a treatment for manic depression.
Latex gloves 1945

The world would be lost without some of our inventions!!!!

sophiespy_007

Australia is the best country ever..

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Rita M

I haven't seen many countries on earth, but I saw Australia. So my answer is yes :)

But Why??

yeah my oath mate. But that would be ethnocentric of me to say that, but oh well. Yep it is.

steven e

no,wales.

john travolta

no Canada mate

chef

You have great scenery but that does not make you the best country on Earth.
That is real chauvinism!!!

bruno C

No, you are not.

Colin Hughes

Question Reported: Discriminating over other countries in the world.

Joke

Although the UK is fecked up, I'd rather be nowhere else

cecile

Not really, no.
How many other countries have you lived in?

bunchkin

i think this is a quite biased quetion becuas eyou posted it in the australia forum lol

Plano

Let's see now. A country where the U.K. sent their most notorious criminals to rot. Even though the indigenous people tried to help, these thugs tried to kill them all off after they saw all the incredible natural resources. The aboriginals still suffer from this outrageous invasion in the form of racism and outright oppression.

Yeah. You go right ahead and be proud.

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