Things That Spring to Mind Whenever Someone Mentions Australia

The Top Ten
1 Dangerous Animals

Firstly guy in the comments. I live in Sydney and of course you don't get crocodiles walking around the city. The Outback, you can experience getting kicked by a roo or get eaten by a croc or get bitten by a spider or snake.
Try surfing and maybe the water will turn red because you have been bitten by a shark. There is Australia for ya.

Spiders, snakes, jellyfish, great white sharks, dingoes, alligators, and many more animals. Even a koala can hurt you.

2 The Outback
3 Sydney Opera House The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre on Sydney Harbour located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the 20th century's most famous and distinctive buildings. ...read more.

One of the country's main attractions, the Sydney Opera House is renowned for its appearance in Sydney Harbor.

4 Vegemite

I'm Aussie and life in red dust evrywere and I hate veggi mite to the bone! Ps about the Dangerous animals there lots but once you know what to do with 20 reddies (Aussie slang between me and my mate for red backs) you're fine. Considering I started laughing at reddies at 6.

Often, you'll see British and Australians argue whether marmite or Vegemite are better.

5 Kangaroos The kangaroo is a marsupial from the family Macropodidae. In common use the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, especially those of the genus Macropus: the red kangaroo, antilopine kangaroo, eastern grey kangaroo, and western grey kangaroo.
6 Rugby

One of the top sports in the country. It's not for the lighthearted, as it gets pretty intense.

7 Toilets That Flush Backwards

However, this is untrue.

8 Aboriginal Culture

We are studying aboriginal art at school and I think that its absolutely amazing.

Didgeridoo buskers are entertaining wildlife.

For 50,000 years, they've inhabited the island.

9 Penal History

It was once called the Penal Colonies because British inmates were shipped there in the 1700s-1800s.

10 Mia Wasikowska Mia Wasikowska (pronounced Vashikovska) is an Australian actress best known for starring as Alice Kingsleigh in Johnny Depp and Tim Burton's adaptation of Alice in Wonderland.
The Contenders
11 Mel Gibson Mel Colmcille Gerard Gibson AO is an American actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his action hero roles, namely his breakout role as Max Rockatansky in the first three films in the Mad Max post-apocalyptic action series, and as Martin Riggs in the Lethal Weapon buddy cop film series.
12 Steve Irwin Stephen Robert "Steve" Irwin, nicknamed "The Crocodile Hunter", was an Australian wildlife expert, television personality, and conservationist.

Steve was cool. Bindi drives us nuts. Just every thing given to her and little over the top bro robert. Following dad's foot steps. God no.

Shouldn't this now be Bindi Irwin?

13 I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here! Originating in the UK in 2002, this reality TV program places celebrities in jungle environments, requiring them to complete various tasks to win food and other essentials. The series has become a global franchise and is known for its mixture of humor, drama, and adventure.
14 Shrimp On the Barbie
15 Cate Blanchett Catherine Élise "Cate" Blanchett is an Australian actress and theatre director. She has received international acclaim and many accolades for her work, including two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, three BAFTA Awards, six AACTA Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.
16 Kylie Minogue Kylie Ann Minogue is an Australian-British singer and actress. She achieved recognition starring in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, where she played tomboy mechanic Charlene Robinson.
17 Margot Robbie Margot Elise Robbie is an Australian actress. Robbie started her career by appearing in Australian independent films in the late 2000s. She got her big break in 2013 with The Wolf of Wall Street, where she was acclaimed for her performance, and being hailed "the hottest woman I've seen in a while" by ...read more.
18 Koala The koala is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia. It is the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae and its closest living relatives are the wombats.
19 Don't Confuse Australia with New Zealand
20 Tame Impala Tame Impala is an Australian psychedelic rock band founded by Kevin Parker in 2007. The group began as a home recording project for Parker, who writes, records, performs, and produces the music.
21 G'day Mate!
22 Pavlova

This is a pretty popular treat in the country, but its neighbor New Zealand invented it.

23 Boomerangs
24 Rose Byrne Rose Byrne is an Australian actress. She made her screen debut in the film Dallas Doll (1994), and continued to act in Australian film and television throughout the 1990s. She obtained her first leading film role in The Goddess of 1967 (2000), which brought her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress, and made ...read more.
25 Hot Actresses

Mia Wasikowska, Rose Byrne, Margot Robbie and if you want to go older Cate Blanchett are to die for

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