What are australians known/famous for?

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molly

Aussies invented the Ute,the Black Box and the Bionic Ear ear we are also known for our sense of humor and not taking ourselves to seriously except when it comes to sports we take that very seriously especially when we compete against the yanks,the poms and the kiwis.

Elizabeth

Some notable Australian inventions & innovations.

The Combine Harvester
Granny Smith Apple
The Self-Propelled Rotary Hoe
Permaculture
Dynamic Lifter fertiliser
The Box Kite
The Sarich Engine
Wave Piercing Catamaran
first commercial aluminium trimaran
The 'Diff' (differential gears)
The 'Ute'
Black Box Flight Recorder
Variable Ratio Rack & Pinion Steering
Zeta Platform
Premix cement truck
Hyshot Scramjet Engine
The Electric Drill
The Two Stroke Lawn Mower
Latex Gloves
The notepad
The Record Changer
garage roller door
Pre-paid Postage
Polymer Bank Notes
Xerox Photocopying
Blast Glass
Refrigeration
Vegemite
Wine Cask
Zip Instant Boiling Water Heater
The Australian Ballot (Secret Ballot)
Electronic Pacemaker
physiotherapy
life saving application of penicillin
lithium
The Bionic Ear
Spray-on-skin
vaccine to prevent cervical cancer
Australian Rules Football
The 'Australian Crawl' - freestyle swimming stroke
The winged keel
X-ray crystallography
The Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer

ll_jenny_ll here

we're famous for not tolerating wankers.

EDIT .. Don't Blame Us for Russell Crowe, he's a Kiwi

jedwards2477

They actually they invented a style of rappelling that used be military forces world wide. commonly referred to as Aussie style . it involves going forward and using one hand to control the speed of your rappel. It was actually invented in world war so they could come over cliffs and surprise the enemy while holding firing there rifles in there free hand.

qldtravelguru

our spirit to endure the hardest conditions and to triumph against all odds...

frankly that is why australians are so dammed proud of ourselves... and our country

tentofield

Australia has produced more Nobel Prize winners per head of population than any other country.
1915 Lawrence and William Bragg (father and son). X-ray crystalography
1945 Howard Florey. Penicillin
1960 Macfarlane Burnett. Immunology.
1963 John Eccles. Nerve Cells
1970 Bernard Katz. Physiology and medicine.
1973 Patrick White. Literature
1975 John Cornforth. Chemistry
1994 John Harsanyi. Economics
1996 Peter Doherty and Rolf Zinkernagel. Immunology
2005 Barry Marshall and Robin Warren. Stomach ulcers.

Australia has also produced great ballet dancers and choreographers like Sir Robert Helpman and great opera singers like Dame Joan Sutherland.

choccy_002

Besides fosters, kangaroos & the croc hunter?
Errr.... cricket, rugby, bbqs, boomerangs & convicts.

tahuprincess

hahahahaahahah lolhahahahaha
Ozzies are famous for the things they stole from New Zealand!
I.e Pharlap, The Finn brothers, Maori Volcanic's and other music groups, and TV programmes........

Ram M

Sydney Harbour Bridge

renae

The Wiggles, Kylie Minogue, Nicole Kidman, Russel Crowe, Gemma Ward, AC/DC, INXS....

oh sorry Russel Crowe IS from NZ....okay how about Hugh Jackman then and Megan Gale? And Heath Ledger.

and convicts (if I got called a convict one more time while I lived in the UK....)

mariemlm

their inventions esp in the medical/scientific fields.
goodonyamate

waltzsingmatilda2

Hi, Jiggity Jig

banditoau

Sucking up to Americans.

Just Plain Sarah

were drunk 87% of the time ,10% is a hang over and the other 3% were high.
o and we have a swim team!
and uh...??

Maggie

The under arm bowl of a sore loosing cricket team
Their nasal whining accent

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