Happy Australia Day! Hope your having a fantastic time and enjoying some great weather and hope you enjoy this rendition of the Australian national anthem in the tune of a Jimmy Barnes classic.
FACTS ON AUSTRALIA
*Australia day - January 26, Australia day, is the anniversary of ships arriving in Sydney carrying a load of Convicts.
*Police force - Australia's first police force was a band of 12 of the most well behaved Convicts.
*Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
*Sydney Olympics - The Sydney Olympics were labelled the 'best ever games' by IOC president Juan Samaranch. What makes this a particularly sweet accolade for Australians is that they followed the Atlanta Olympics - staged by Americans.
*Canberra - Because Sydney and Melbourne kept bickering over which city should be the capital of Australia, it was decided that neither of them would be capital and instead, a new capital would be built in the middle of them both
*POME - Australians refer to English people as Poms or Pome. This is an acronym for Prisoners of Mother England.
*Newspaper readership - Per capita, Australians read more newspapers than any other nation.
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