Depends on who it is: we’re quite happy to disown Dragon and the late, unlamented Sir Joh.
I’m pretty sure Erroll Flyn was from Tasmania.
Anybody remember tennis champ Rod Laver? (Goes back to the 60’s I think.)
I’m pretty sure Tasmania is part of Australia, unless they’ve seceded.
He might have been having a joke. The relationship that Tasmania has with the rest of Australia is something like the relationship Hawaii feels with mainland USA.
When i lived in Austrlia, we had a little saying:
For most Aussies, there’s Australians, and then there’s Tasmanians.
But for people who live in Tasmania, there’s Australians, and then there’s Mainlanders.
I forgot Mark Webber, Mick Doohan, Alan Jones, Chad Reed and a bunch of other motorcycle guys.
Except that they were born in England. Grew up and got famous in Australia, that’s true.
Not one of these were born in Australia! Hawaii USA, NZ and somewhere else in the USA respectively.
Dame Melba
yes I’m gay
Well, personally, i think that the definition of someone’s nationality should be tied to a little bit more than where the person’s mother happened to be when they popped out. I was born in Canada, but we moved to Australia when i was four, and i spent all my formative years there. While i like Canada a lot, and retain my Canadian citizenship, i talk like an Australian and identify as one.
All the people in Askance’s two posts above had rather similar experiences, being born overseas but spending most of their formative years in Australia. Of course, we can’t ask them how they feel about the matter, but i think it’s a bit silly to discount them just because they happened to be born elsewhere.
In the right circles people would recognise:
Andrew Bogut (basketball)
Darren Bennett (baseball)
Graeme Lloyd (baseball)
Dave Nilsson (football)
Annette Kellerman (silent movies)
Andrew Bogut (basketball)
Darren Bennett (football)
Graeme Lloyd (baseball)
Dave Nilsson (baseball)
Annette Kellerman (silent movies)
would be better.
Actually they didn’t really. They only lived in Australia for 9 years and although they had a few minor records while here, their first hit Spicks and Specks was released while they were returning to England for good. I don’t think that the brothers Gibb have ever considered themselves anything other than British.
Dammit! I wanted to be the first to mention AC/DC. Nutz.
There’s also that other band - youthy, angsty, who were they? Oh yeah - Silverchair. They’re Aussies.
Russell Crowe was born in NZ, his parents moved to Oz when he was three. So I hear. I’d count him Australian.
Heath Ledger is an Aussie.
Yvonne Gulagong is an Aussie (tennis player in the 60s and 70s. Won Wimbledon a coupla times). Not sure if a lot of Americans (or me, for that matter) would recognize her, today, really, but such is the sport of tennis.
You may, but he doesn’t. He always says he is proud to be an Aussie but also a Kiwi.
As far as I’m concerned you can keep the wanker especially since his last solo singing effort (Raewyn…anyone??)
Just don’t try to claim the Finns.
Almost forgot that pretty girl Emily Browning, from the Lemony Snicket film.
And of course the F…
Aaaar, nuts.
I almost love you, you witty sod. Too bad you are from the wrong side of the ditch
(oh and that whole married thing :D)
My head. She explodes! :eek:
Umm… thanks.
Oh dear…always preview! Far to many :D’s
Well, there’s The Church, Robert Hawk, Peter Weir and Natalie Imbruglia.
And Martin Bryant.