# Regarding Australia **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 3, 2006, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-australia/382668 "2006-12-03T07:06:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-australia/382668/41 "2006-12-06T08:49:37Z")
[QUOTE=cazzle] Also had the best pizza of my life in Tanunda, though the name of the pizza place escapes me at present… [/QUOTE] How many pizza joints can there possibly _be_ in Tanunda? 😉 One thing to remember if you are visiting South Australia: do NOT hire a car in Vic with Vic plates and head over the border. The natives will not like you and will subject your vehicle to cruel and unnatural punishments, especially during the winter (footy) months. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TastesLikeBurning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@TastesLikeBurning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TastesLikeBurning)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-australia/382668/42 "2006-12-06T09:09:28Z")
[QUOTE=Martini Enfield] …Never been to WA, and not planning on it- the State has gun laws so strict they make North Korea’s laws look like Council Parking bylaws. Like Tasmanians, they often seem to see things differently to the rest of Australia. Fun Fact: WA tried to secede in the 1930s, and probably would have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for those meddling kids… [/QUOTE] Do you often take your guns on holiday as well? ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-australia/382668/43 "2006-12-06T09:19:42Z")
[QUOTE=TastesLikeBurning] Do you often take your guns on holiday as well? [/QUOTE] With someone like **Martini** , I don’t think that would be a loaded question actually. Even guns like to see new sights occasionally. Oh gawd that was corny. Somebody, shoot me now!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-australia/382668/44 "2006-12-06T10:23:05Z")
[QUOTE=araminty] Naw. We just have less population, less light pollution, and a “different” (AKA better!) view of the Milky Way. [/QUOTE] I buy less population and a different view of the Milky Way, but I live in inner Sydney…so…less light pollution? :dubious: Nah. Cheers, G ---
**Author:** ![Fredescu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/73ab20/32.png) [@Fredescu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fredescu)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-australia/382668/45 "2006-12-06T10:26:12Z")
[QUOTE=Gleena] I buy less population and a different view of the Milky Way, but I live in inner Sydney…so…less light pollution? :dubious: [/QUOTE] The difference between the night sky in inner Sydney and the night sky if you head west for a few hours is, well, night and day. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-australia/382668/46 "2006-12-06T10:41:39Z")
[QUOTE=kambuckta] With someone like **Martini** , I don’t think that would be a loaded question actually. Even guns like to see new sights occasionally. [/QUOTE] If I was going hunting, then yes, I would be taking my guns on holiday. However, I have no desire to visit WA, armed or otherwise, because their unreasonable attitude towards legitimate firearms ownership tells me the state is run by… _Communists_. Or someone bad, anyway. 😉 Seriously though, it’s my own personal form of boycott. Now, if WA announced tomorrow that their gun laws were coming into line with everyone else in Australia, I’d consider taking a holiday there. Until then, New Zealand is closer (and cheaper), and I don’t have to pay for accommodation there. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-australia/382668/47 "2006-12-06T11:02:34Z")
[QUOTE=Martini Enfield] I’m not a huge fan of Sydney- the Harbour area is very nice and historic, but the rest of it… well, it doesn’t seem any different from any other big city I’ve ever been in. Melbourne is very nice- perhaps a little “Multicultural” for some people- and quite similar climate-wise to New Zealand. Brisbane is an overgrown country town, with a CBD built c. 1976 and not improved upon since then. 😉 [/QUOTE] As an New Zealander it is both highly inappropriate and possibly even illegal to say good things about Oz (😃 )I am a rebel and I will risk all for you. My favourite place in Oz has always been Sydney. It is beautiful city with lots to do/see. Fellow Kiwis seem to shun Sydney in favour of Brisbane or Perth though (immigration to Brisbane is huge). I have an Uncle who has lived in Brisbane for about 10d years and loves the place and an ex-neighbour who has lived in Perth for 6 yrs and swears it is the bees knees. Sydney is gorgeous and well worth a visit But more importantly NZ is very cool 😃 sad, sad, case of cross Tassie rivalry. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-australia/382668/48 "2006-12-06T11:25:50Z")
[QUOTE=calm kiwi] Fellow Kiwis seem to shun Sydney in favour of Brisbane or Perth though (immigration to Brisbane is huge). [/QUOTE] Can you pass on the memo then to all the bloody NZ’s who have made Melbourne their home…obviously they got lost on the way to Brisbane or Perth. Stupid Kiwis, can’t read a road-map to save their lives. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-australia/382668/49 "2006-12-07T06:25:30Z")
[QUOTE=cazzle] It wasn’t Melba’s :eek: It was [Haigh’s](http://haighschocolates.com.au/our_company/history.html). And it wasn’t too bad - the chocolate was very nice and the tour was well conducted. It was just a little sad that it apparently made up 50% of all there was to see in Adelaide (especially since Glenelg was one of the crappiest beaches I’ve ever seen). But like you say, outside of Adelaide there were a lot of places worth visiting. Also had the best pizza of my life in Tanunda, though the name of the pizza place escapes me at present… [/QUOTE] I’d forgotten about Haigh’s! Their chocolate almonds are very nice indeed, although on the whole Haigh’s don’t justify the cost. I’ve nothing against paying premium prices for things that deserve it, but Haigh’s are way overpriced generally speaking. Pizza in Tanunda? Hmm, intriguing! I don’t go there much, but I’ll keep an eye out. 😃 Mmm…pizza… ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-australia/382668/50 "2006-12-07T06:32:02Z")
[QUOTE=kambuckta] One thing to remember if you are visiting South Australia: do NOT hire a car in Vic with Vic plates and head over the border. [/QUOTE] _grin_ There’s definitely an element of truth in that! Generally I prefer it when the Vics come over in cars with their state plates on though: [ol] [li]The state motto above the numbers either says ‘On the Move’ (which is cute and accurate) or ‘The Place to Be’ which is kind of humourous. I can’t think if they’re both Victorian phrases or maybe one of them is Western Australian. Either way, I think they’re kind of cute when not in their own State.[/li] [li]It makes me cut some slack to the person driving 100km/h in front of me instead of 110km/r. (Otherwise I do tend to get a wee bit agitated.)[/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-australia/382668/51 "2006-12-07T07:33:28Z")
Western Australia is a beautiful state. I visit there a few times a year though sadly, I rarely get out of Perth. A huge state, to explore it fully would take a very long time. Perth and Fremantle alone are worth the visit though. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-australia/382668/52 "2006-12-07T10:10:40Z")
[QUOTE=Bites When Provoked] I’d forgotten about Haigh’s! Their chocolate almonds are very nice indeed, although on the whole Haigh’s don’t justify the cost. I’ve nothing against paying premium prices for things that deserve it, but Haigh’s are way overpriced generally speaking. Pizza in Tanunda? Hmm, intriguing! I don’t go there much, but I’ll keep an eye out. 😃 Mmm…pizza… [/QUOTE] It was a chicken pizza with a white sauce instead of a tomato or barbecue sauce base. Fan-tas-tic! The pizza place was just around the corner from [this bench](http://homepage.mac.com/abeckett/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2005-11-07%2023.42.42%20-0800/Image-7D05052C502A11DA.jpg) (yes, we had been doing winery tours. Why do you ask?). ---
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-australia/382668/53 "2006-12-07T10:54:36Z")
[QUOTE=Martini Enfield] Brisbane is an overgrown country town, with a CBD built c. 1976 and not improved upon since then. 😉 [/QUOTE] errr… that ain’t right. In fact my big complaint is they are pulling way too much of old Brisbane down. mm ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-australia/382668/54 "2006-12-07T12:45:29Z")
[QUOTE=mamboman] errr… that ain’t right. In fact my big complaint is they are pulling way too much of old Brisbane down. [/QUOTE] Have you been to the Brisbane CBD lately? I was there on Saturday night, and it’s looking very… dated, for want of a better word. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-australia/382668.md?page=2)