# 20 Million Australians!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-million-australians/216868>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 4, 2003, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-million-australians/216868 "2003-12-04T04:16:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Barks\_dog\_food](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@Barks\_dog\_food](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barks_dog_food)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2003, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-million-australians/216868/21 "2003-12-04T15:57:15Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Ice Wolf \*  
> \*\*20 million Aussies. 4 million New Zealanders. We’re still just small fish in a big, big ocean. \*\*

All the best countries have about 4 million inhabitants.🙂

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**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2003, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-million-australians/216868/22 "2003-12-04T17:04:30Z")

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\<Comes off a subway train that held about nine hundred people\>

\<sits here trying to imagine an entire country with only twenty times the population of her county, the second least populated borough in NYC\>

\<fails\>

So, a 2000 sq. foot apartment costs, like, AU600/mo, right?

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**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2003, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-million-australians/216868/23 "2003-12-04T17:47:59Z")

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ADVISORY: Foreign Florae & Faunae Prohibited!

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**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2003, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-million-australians/216868/24 "2003-12-04T19:26:09Z")

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Oh yeah, my colleague is leaving to take a job in the Melbourne office of our company (she and hubby are homesick Aussies) so add four people come January, please.

So…foreign Fungae are OK? K-CHING!!

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