Without those convicts landing in Australia we wouldn't...

No vegemite sandwiches.

Maybe those guys wouldn’t have needed a long-distance ride after all, and could have taken “Priscilla, Queen of the Taxis”.

Well you can, and I’m told they are a big hit with the Asian tourist sector, but the logistical difficulties of getting USDA certified product here means you are much better advised to seek such delicacies and the “casual atmosphere suggestive of the Australian Outback” closer to it’s culinary roots, i.e. Tampa, Florida. :stuck_out_tongue:

Which is something we can both be truely thankful for. :wink:

Zoos would be far less entertaining.

We would never had Internet photos of Elle McPherson, Tara Fitzgerald, and Portia de Rossi nude together. Come to think of it, we wouldn’t have had McPherson or de Rossi at all.

If Janszoon, Hartog and Tasman had’ve been fair dinkum, all the above would’ve been in Dutch.

At least you should be proud to note that Outback only uses the most authentic Aussies in their commercials. :stuck_out_tongue:

On a somewhat more serious note, I’ve heard that the convict influence in Australia. There were certainly convicts sent to Australia but the big population influx was miners who came after gold was discovered in 1851.

Consider myself zinged!

True enough, 160-170,000 convicts were transported.
Double that number of gold seekers arrived in 1852 alone, and the population trebled in 20 years.
But in absolute numbers, it was the post WWII immigration that saw the greatest population growth, almost trebled again since then. As a result of that 24% of Australians are borne overseas, almost 70% have a parent or grandparent born overseas.

Me, I’m 5-6th generation Aussie on both sides and hence a very rare bird, indeed.

No good TV live from the moon.

Not over the air. You need to get cable.