Tourists to Australia told not to fear spiders but surf. CANBERRA Thu Sep 16, 2010 12:34pm BST CANBERRA (Reuters Life!) - Tourists visiting Australia often worry about deadly spiders and sharks but a new campaign on flights coming into the country hopes to warn them about a greater danger -- the surf. Overseas tourists entering Australia are to be given safety instructions after a sharp rise in the number of drownings involving foreigners on the country's famed beaches, surf life saving officials said on Thursday.
Eighty-two people drowned on Australia's beaches last year, and more than a quarter of these, 26, were foreigners, ill equipped to deal with the strong currents and surf. This was up from nine overseas visitor drownings in 2006. "This high risk group has limited English skills, a lack of knowledge about the beach, over-estimate their swimming ability, inadequate swimming skills and a general lack of surf safety awareness," said Brett Williamson, Chief Executive of Surf Life Saving Australia (SLSA). OzComics. Australian humour - Australia's Culture Portal. Australian humour has a long history that can be traced back to our origins as convict colonies. It is therefore no surprise that a national sense of humour quickly developed that responded to those conditions.
This unique sense of humour is recognised (although maybe not always understood) the world over as being distinctly Australian. Our humour is dry, full of extremes, anti-authoritarian, self-mocking and ironic. The country itself is the ultimate joke; the wave you body-surf into shore after a day at the beach could contain a shark or a rip-tide and, when you get back, your house could have been burnt to the ground in a bush fire. That's where the whole 'no worries' thing comes from. Humour is seen in the Australian use of , and across media from in print, as sketches on radio, as series on television, in films and with witty observations of life in Australian literature. A screen shot from one of Australia's most enduring sources of humour – Dad and Dave.
Styles of humour In film. Australian English vocabulary. Australian English is a major variety of the English language spoken throughout Australia. Most the vocabulary of Australian English is shared with British English, though there are notable differences.[1] The vocabulary of Australia is drawn from many sources, including various dialects of British English as well as Gaelic languages, some Indigenous Australian languages, and Polynesian languages.[2] One of the first dictionaries of Australian slang was Karl Lentzner's Dictionary of the Slang-English of Australia and of Some Mixed Languages in 1892. [non-primary source needed] The first dictionary based on historical principles that covered Australian English was E.
E. Morris's Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases and Usages (1898). In 1981, the more comprehensive Macquarie Dictionary of Australian English was published. Words of Australian origins[edit] The origins of other terms are not as clear, or are disputed. Fair go - a reasonable chance, a fair deal. The Bushranger Act. By 1830 there were so many bushrangers roaming around New South Wales that the government passed a special Act to make it easier to catch people who might be bush- rangers. The Act said: Anyone could arrest a person if he suspected him of being an escaped convict or bushranger. It was then up to the arrested per- son to prove that he was not an escaped convict. If he could not do so, he was taken to Sydney for questioning. This was a tough law and many innocent people became angry and resentful when they were searched or, as sometimes happened, arrested as suspected bushmasters. They were sometimes taken from lockup to lockup until they ended up in the convict bar- racks in Sydney.
Royal Flying Doctor Service. Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. One of the original De Havilland DH.50 machines used flown by Qantas, in this case doing ambulance work, delivering a patient at Brisbane in 1931. The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (RFDS, informally known as The Flying Doctor) is one of the largest and most comprehensive aeromedical organisations in the world. It provides emergency and primary health care services for those living in rural, remote and regional areas of Australia. It is a not-for-profit organisation which provides health care to people who cannot access a hospital or general practice due to the vast distances of the Outback.
A "mantle of safety" for the outback[edit] Flynn's missionary work involved the establishment of hospitals in bush communities. This, however, did not help those who lived far from any major community. Darcy was a stockman at Ruby Plains, a remote cattle station in Western Australia. Flight and radio: the fusion of two fledgling technologies[edit] Success, and continued success[edit]