Brits rush at chance for Aussie life

[Provost Harrison]

Australia, so awesome you left.

Tou-f**king-che!

[molly bloom]

Australia, so awesome you left.

What exactly do you know about my personal life, or my reasons for leaving Australia and living in the U.K. now ? If the answer is nothing or next to nothing, then why join Mobius in making incorrect assumptions ?

That's one bird you don't really want to flock together with...

I have no particular grudge against Australia.

I haven't suggested you have. All I've done is try to act as a corrective to some long-outdated cliches thrown up by another poster, who on the basis of a brief stay and some shallow experience, seems to think this qualifies them to be an expert on Australian history and culture.

Seems they aren't the only ones. Not sure why you are so defensive about it.

I wasn't aware that providing an alternative viewpoint to Mobius's, based on a longer stay and greater experience of life in Australia, was 'being defensive'. Considering that I'm not an Australian resident nor was I born there, I don't see what I would be defensive about. I just don't like to see decades-old stereotypes recycled. I reacted the same way to Australians who brought up 'the whingeing Pom' cliche.

that I'm even willing to bet that its Impressionist collection is better everything in Australia put together.

Still awaiting any evidence to back this bet up. Of course Australia did have its own school of Impressionists, so unless you're referring only to French Impressionists or the foreign artists resident in France who took part in the exhibitions mounted by the Impressionists, you'd still most likely be wrong- and in any case, who decided that Impressionism was the sole visual decider in the cultural or artistic value stakes ?

Tou-f**king-che!

Provost Harrison

Gosh, how crushed am I by the sparkling wit displayed here. Have you considered a career in comedy ?

[Provost Harrison]

I did, but decided it wasn't the route for me.

[MikeH]

I wasn't aware that providing an alternative viewpoint to Mobius's, based on a longer stay and greater experience of life in Australia, was 'being defensive'. Considering that I'm not an Australian resident nor was I born there, I don't see what I would be defensive about. I just don't like to see decades-old stereotypes recycled. I reacted the same way to Australians who brought up 'the whingeing Pom' cliche.

Even if they are still true?

[MikeH]

I think that things are improving in Australia in terms of culture, but appears they are still far behind Europe.

Bit like British food, improving, but still a lot of ****.

[Egbert]

I think that things are improving in Australia in terms of culture, but appears they are still far behind Europe.

Bit like British food, improving, but still a lot of ****.

I laughed my tits off when I read this.

Thanks Mike. I needed a good laugh.

[MikeH]

The idea that Australian culture is improving is that funny?

[Egbert]

No, not that. The apparent implication that we should feel a need to "catch up" to any other country was funny.

[molly bloom]

Even if they are still true?

In whose opinion ? I haven't seen any proof to back up Mobius's cliches, just a lot more cliches and hot air.

I think that things are improving in Australia in terms of culture, but appears they are still far behind Europe.

You'll find the 'cultural cringe' isn't much of an issue any more.

I'm curious as to which Australian literature you've read, or which Australian artists' work you've seen. Or even which Australian films you might have watched, and I'm not including (or excluding) 'Mad Max' .

The Commonwealth of Australia dates from January 1 1901. Great Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, Poland, Denmark, Sweden (for instance) all would seem to have something of head start when it comes to age.

In 1972 the premier of South Australia, Don Dunstan, established the South Australian Film Corporation, and three years later this organization produced two films that changed the nature of the Australian film industry: Sunday Too Far Away and Picnic at Hanging Rock (both 1975). The corporation was also involved in many other notable productions during this period, including Storm Boy (1976), "Breaker" Morant (1980), and Peter Weir's The Last Wave (1977) and Gallipoli (1981). Its success inspired the other states to establish similar organizations and provided an ideal environment for directors such as Weir to develop a style of filmmaking that was noticeably different from the prevailing Hollywood style.

http://www.filmreference.com/encyclo...NRE-FILMS.html

Of course more recent films include 'Lantana', 'Rabbit Proof Fence', 'The Last Days Of Chez Nous', 'Proof'... to name but a few...

[Egbert]

Far too many Australian films are boring rubbish produced by self-indulgent directors. Government spends ten of millions subsidising cinematic dross. There have been a few first rate films amongst all the garbage. I'd like the subsidies and the Australian film Corporation abolished, waste of money.

Actually, one of the best films I ever saw was Australian and obviously produced on a shoe string budget. Can't remember the name. very old film produced before the film industry had any subsidies.

[Dauphin]

molly, why are you so argumentative, adversarial and presuming of insults?

[Dauphin]

Luckily I seem not to have learnt the overgrown child method of arguing.



Committed ? I can well believe that (in the sectioning under the Mental Health Act sense, that is...)

Hmmm.

[Egbert]

Dauphin. Are you an Aussie?

Molly. There really is no need to defend Australia. we are a very self satisfied lot.

[MikeH]

Dauphin. Are you an Aussie?

Molly. There really is no need to defend Australia. we are a very self satisfied lot.

[Dauphin]

Dauphin. Are you an Aussie?

Given that I've been looking at hundreds of artworks held in Venetian churches over the last few days, I'm far too cultured to be considered an Aussie. *burp*.