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Australia’s Most Dangerous Animals: a Decade of Death

BobinOz — Fri, 17 May 2013 09:08:18 +0000

In today’s post I am going to reveal Australia’s most deadly animal, the critter responsible for the most human deaths year by year here in Australia. Before I name the beast, you might like to try and guess who the culprit is. You won’t be the first to try, the following question was asked to [...]

Coles versus Tesco: Battle of the Batteries!

BobinOz — Wed, 15 May 2013 11:19:04 +0000

Also known as: the cost of living in Australia compared with the UK explained with batteries. Time I did another of my scientifically flawless cost comparisons between the UK and Australia, this one should be slightly easier to complete than my post Buying a Bed in Australia: It’s a Nightmare! For one thing, both of [...]

The Budget in Australia and the Disappearing Surplus

BobinOz — Mon, 13 May 2013 11:26:50 +0000

Tomorrow, here in Australia, it’s budget day. So, how’s that going to go for us? Well, two years ago I wrote a post called BobinOz’s Probably Wildly Inaccurate Australian Budget Special 2011. I’m sure you remember reading it and I’m also sure you no doubt remember that in it our Treasurer, Wayne Swan, said his [...]

Stonefish and Bullrout in Australia: It’s Not That Bad

BobinOz — Fri, 10 May 2013 08:57:35 +0000

If you think Australia is a dangerous land to live in, and some people do call it “Venomland”, wait till you hear about the sea. We’ve probably got more creatures living in water that can kill you than we have that live on the land. A few years ago, I ran a little series on [...]

Interstate Rivalry in Australia: A Few Nicknames

BobinOz — Wed, 08 May 2013 08:19:17 +0000

Time for a another reprint of an article I wrote for Australia and New Zealand magazine, this is the one that appeared in their March issue a couple of months ago. A month before that, I’d written an article about hopping on a plane and visiting other Australian cities and I was going to follow [...]

Buddha’s Birthday Bash in Brisbane

BobinOz — Mon, 06 May 2013 07:23:45 +0000

I learnt quite a bit today; here is what I learnt and where I learnt it… About Buddha ‘Every living being has the same basic wish – to be happy and to avoid suffering. Even newborn babies, animals, and insects have this wish. It has been our main wish since beginningless time and it is [...]

The Search for JC Slaughter Falls, Brisbane

BobinOz — Fri, 03 May 2013 11:41:43 +0000

It’s amazing that we have lived here in Brisbane, same house, for more than five years and it wasn’t until about a month ago that we heard about one of our local beauty spots, JC Slaughter Falls. A friend of my wife’s mentioned it to her. What is so amazing about this place is it’s [...]

Compulsory Third Party (CTP) Insurance in Australia

BobinOz — Wed, 01 May 2013 12:29:47 +0000

When I first arrived in Australia back in November 2007 and bought my first car, I had to pay, like anyone else, for rego, or car registration. This is the thing that we Brits would call car tax, but Australian rego was slightly different. I thought it was quite “quaint”, as in attractively unusual rather [...]

Chucking a Sickie: Australia and UK Compared

BobinOz — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:57:16 +0000

On Friday my daughter didn’t go to school, she complained of a poorly tummy and the constant need to rush to the toilet almost without warning. So she stayed at home. She was, of course, genuinely ill. If she hadn’t been, if she’d just been angling for day off, this would be known in these [...]

Anzac Day 2013: Brisbane City March

BobinOz — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:38:50 +0000

In 2009, I wrote my first post about Anzac Day and it’s a good place to start for anyone who really doesn’t know what this day is about…. Anzac Day Explained. I have written about Anzac Day every year since; in 2010, probably my shortest post ever was called This Blog is Closed and 2011 [...]