What is australia known for?

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• Koala • uʍop ɹǝpun

To name a couple things::: (or I'd be here all day)
Me, (being the Koala) and kangaroos.

Our culture - Aussies are informal and “laid back,”
Greetings are: “mates” and “sheilas”: G'day (Good day).

Sydney’s Opera House & Sydney Harbour Bridge
Akubra Hats
The Man from Snowy River (film)
Uluru (or previously known as Ayres rock)
A large sandstone rock formation located in the Northern Territory of central Australia. It is listed as a World Heritage Site for its natural and man-made attributes. It’s 859.53 metres above sea level. It is 8.85 kilometres in circumference, and is 347.3 metres above the plain.

Steve Irwin – The Crocodile Hunter (deceased), Family owns the Australian Zoo. http://australiazoo.com.au

Australia Actors such as Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Cate Blanchett, Ernie Dingo, Paul Hogan (Crocodile Dundee, http://imdb.com/title/tt0090555/) Rachel Griffiths, Kylie Minogue, just to name a couple. For a list of all Australia actors and singers go http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Australian_film_actors

Our fashions and entertainment differ little from those in Europe and North America.

Our humour is often characterized as sarcastic, ironic, and self-deprecating. <grin>

Drinking and gambling is a very important aspect of Australian popular culture – Beer being the top choice! xxxx and VB (beer brands)

Australian cuisine has kangaroo and crocodile on the menu (you can buy kangaroo meet in any supermarket butcher department. Barbecues (“the barbie”) is the Australian pastime.

Traditional Aboriginal Outback cuisine consists of such unique foods as kangaroo, wombat, turtle, eel, emu, snake, and witchetty grubs (larvae of the ghost moth).

Vegemite, a salty, dark-brown yeast extract, is an Australian icon and used on toast for breakfast. You must try some while you are here otherwise they will not let you leave the country, it is custom.

To be a true Aussie you need to know the slang used.
go to http://www.australianexplorer.com/australian_slang.htm for a 'hoot'. (laugh)

and ....Bananas in Pyjamas, The Wiggles
The Melbourne Cup & Phar Lap
The Aussie Meat Pie
Boomerangs
Drizabone coats
Surf Lifesavers

the worst soapies known to mankind (home and away, neighbours et al)
the Chaser boys
a weedy little prime minister
cyclone tracy
lindy chamberlain
the biggest inner city fence ( 5 kms APEC)
the worlds deadiest snakes (dugite, king brown, taipan)
mousey and me!!

It was a pleasure mousey

* tj *

Vegemite!

And lots of other things!!

The_Mouse

All you other answerers didn't leave anything much for me to add did you? You bunch of dingbats!!

(example of typical Aussie humour you will come across. Notice that no one here will take that sort of comment personally. If they do - they are not from this part)

EDIT: OOOH thank you for mentioning me jilly.

Ken E

Immunology.
Medical research
Antarctic research
Radio and optical astronomy
Just the odd few Nobel Prizes and Copley Medals in these fields.

And all the other things already mentioned.

tentofield

Coal, iron ore, uranium, wheat, sheep, Kylie Minogue, Dame Joan Sutherland, Howard Florey, the stump-jump plough, the bionic ear, Olivia Newton John, football, meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars.

janice

that is so easy..... it's Shrimp on da Barbie!

mercurymaniacal

Vegemite, Kylie Minogue, The Sydney Opera House, Sydney Harbour Bridge, Kangaroos, Desert, and other random stereotypes. People from overseas used to ask me if kangaroos were hopping around the streets. hahahah.

Rita M

Not to forget Slim Dusty!

And the Wallabies, they're doing a great job at the worldcup so far :)

But Why??

Great humour. As seen on ABC

Cameron in OZ

great weather
Rusty Crowe
average beer
great wine
happy people
really bad TV - not as bad as the US though
outback pubs
great bands - Oils, etc
average movies
great sense of humour
sports

light star girl

Ayers Rock
Great Barrier Reef
Boomerangs
Kangeroos and Koalas
Sydney harbour (bridge and opera house)
Bondi beach
surfing
men in vests
men down under
men drinking beer
men eating pies
cork hats
flies
steve urwin
crocodiles
winning at sporting events
taking the p**s out of the Brits (Poms)
waltzing matilda
swag bags
going 'bush'
ferals
rascism
the stolen generation
kylie minogue
for just having put a fence around their entire city!
dangerous wildlife
lamington cake
Muriels wedding
barbequing their food
being the country 'down under'
for being convicts

waltzsingmatilda

Beer, Woman and Sex.

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