Its just infested with liberals and fascists. Otherwise its pretty cool.
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Australia feels so much better than the U.S. I like being here. It's still neolib af don't get me wrong, but on a personal level I feel much safer here than when I'm back home in the U.S.
My little sister is in Straya for school, and yalls' minimum wage and wages in general pay better than here. Now, housing and prices are fucked but they got fucked up where I live and there's been no concomittant increases in wages.
oh you guys are still around? I thought the whole country burned to the ground a few years ago
Unfortunately some Socialists instituted a strong professional and volunteer emergency service decades back and the Liberals haven't gutted it yet.
I was in Sydney during one of the union strikes when the CFMEU was getting attacked for 1/100th the level of corruption the LNP got away with. Glad to see there is still solidarity. Unions seem hit or miss in Australia but the overall consensus seems to be pro rather than anti which is a plus.
Probably the most beautiful place I have ever been and with some of the worst people I've ever met. There are places there with a stark primeval majesty that is unique across the whole world, and to see them I had to deal with some of the most naked racism I've ever encountered.
The image that emerges out of all my memories of the place is looking out the window at the incredible flat red-sand expanse of the outback while a motel owner was warning me about how the local indigenous population comes out at night and steals wallets with fishing poles.
Honestly, if you can fish my wallet out of my back pocket with a rod and tackle while dangling over the edge of a building, you deserve to have it. That's some real Looney Toons shit.
The world is pretty shit tbh.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I've always wanted to visit Australia..... but the spiders. Nope. just nope.
The spiders are mostly fine (except for the Sydney funnel web.)
it's the eastern brown snakes and the jellyfish and the dropbears that are the real threats