It’s celebrated in March/April, just as Christmas is celebrated in December. In addition, Good Friday and Easter Monday are public holidays (unlike in the U.S.).
Mostly indifference, to be honest. I’d say our opinion of him ebbs and flows with the rest of the country depending on the latest political drama, with very little attention paid to the fact that he comes from Queensland.
Are you planning to take a big gap year and travel around the world? Or have you already? How common is it among your peers to do this? I ask because I’ve met so many young Australians who’ve done this and make it sound like a totally normal and expected rite of passage among young Australians…but of course (never having been to Australia myself) all the Australians I’ve met were already travelers, so maybe not perfectly representative.
What generation Australian are you? Those same young Australians mentioned above were - coincidentally or not - remarkably likely to be first generation (much more so than young people from any other New World/immigrant nation in my experience).
I graduated high school in 2007, started and dropped out of university in 2008 (then spent half the year unemployed), worked all year 2009 and now I’m studying, and I want desperately to travel as soon as I can, to the US and UK. Hopefully it would be part of my career advancement and not just a holiday. So I guess I’ve taken two gap years but I didn’t spend either of them traveling! I wouldn’t say it’s a rite of passage, barely anyone I know my age has gone traveling but… how do I put this… I don’t know a lot of people who could afford to (yes I think that’s putting it politely enough!). I think it’s a common thing to do but it’s not just assumed that once high school is over you’ll go traveling.
On my mother’s side I think I’m 5th generation Australian, my father’s side is very mysterious and I know I’m at least 3rd generation but don’t know further than that. My background is Irish and French, as far as I know - again my father’s side is messy.
I guess first generation Australians would have relatives in other countries and would have more immediate reason to travel than I would, so that’s a possible reason why many of those you have met have been first generation. I often joke that I have “no culture” because everyone around me seems to have a more complicated or interesting racial background than I do - I’m like boring old plain white bread in comparison!
I call bullshit that you are an Australian teenager. It’s patently obvious from your post/s that you are an imposter and just here to stir up trouble. :rolleyes:
You were here posting at 6.48am AEST. No Aussie teenager worth his salt would even consider surfacing before midday. You sir, are a liar and a fraudster. 
What do you think of censorship in Australia? Oz treats for example computer games different than US and Western Europe.
Noooo! I’ve been exposed! Alright, I admit, I’m actually 74 and here to stir up the abortion debate. 
It’s a bit backwards and embarrassing to have no R-rating for video games, hopefully that will be changing soon. Other than video games I’ve never noticed too much ridiculous censorship, certainly not more than you’d find overseas (the word “sin” censored in a Britney Spears song, for example). I’m against overzealous censorship but there’s never been anything censored that I’ve seen fit to get too angry about.
There is the alternate hypothesis: that multimediac17 stays up really really late, and goes to sleep around 7 am. One of my (Australian) sons has a sleeping pattern that’s close to that.
Papa?
Give me a few days with nothing to do and my sleeping patterns become very close to that. Eating dinner when my parents are having breakfast, and so forth.
A mate of mine who was in a band used to keep those sorts of hours too… he once casually mentioned he hadn’t seen daylight in over a month.
Australian (only just older than teenager) but this is a great question so i’d love to answer.
The video game censorship is a problem of there not being an R18+ (restricted to people over 18, (this exists for movies btw) rating for video games, If the game is rated to be worse than MA 15+ (restricted to people over 15), the only options are “don’t release the game” or “censor it” obviously most people think these are pretty bad options. I don’t think it will take long for the powers that be to introduce the R rating for games, but in the mean time many people simply import them from New Zealand (I have no idea the legality of this but it happened alot with Left for dead 2)
As for internet censorship, from what i gather no one really takes it seriously, I would be very surprised if it ever goes ahead, too expensive, too difficult to implement, no one wants it to slow down the internet, basically too many problems, and not alot of political gain by doing it. If it becomes an election issue this may change.
There’s a Commonwealth Attorney-General’s meeting on May 7, and an R18+ rating for computer games is on the agenda. And now the individual who was blocking the R18+ rating is no longer in office, it’s widely believed that such a rating will finally be implemented.
Thank whoever you worship for this.
In case anyone is interested, in Australia for some unfathomable reason censorship falls within the perview of the Attornies General for each state, and for major changes like introducing a new rating category a unanimous decision from each of memebr is required.
For the last several years the South Australian Attorney General has been the Australian version of a fundamental Christian, and opposed an R18+ category on general principle.