Ozwords reminds us that Australians eat ‘biscuits’ and not ‘cookies’. In true Australian fashion though, ‘biscuits’ have received the traditional abbreviation and become ‘bikkies’. Go to Ozwords and find out the background to an assortment of slang expressions including ‘stiff bikkies’ and ‘big bikkies’, learn how ‘Jatz crackers’ may not be referring to a small …
Australian ABC Radio National’s Encounter program has an episode featuring Australian military chaplains during World War 1. The program is available for listening at Encounter’s web page. Here’s the introduction: On the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, we focus on the men and women known affectionately as ‘padres’, chaplains who have …
Just in case you didn’t know, this post from Today I Found Out provides the origins of the names of Australia’s states and territories, along with their capitals. I don’t know if they teach Australian geography and history in schools anymore. Now, if you search around the internet you might find out that the list …
The second verse of Dorothea Mackellar’s My Country is embedded into the psyche of Australia. Even for someone like me who can’t stand being outdoors. It will be constantly referenced in some form or another over this Australia Day weekend. I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of …
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