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Do Australians use British spelling for everything, or have completely separate spelling conventions, or is it like Canadian English where you pick and choose?

Most of the time we use british spelling- like mum and colour but there are quiet a few Americanized words in our vocabulary as well. Like when we talk about 'pants' we're following the American meaning while the British call them trousers. So yes we are a lot like Canada in that we usually follow the british spelling system but we have adopted quiet a few American words and meanings into our vocab.

Also there was a brief period in history (around the 1900s or so) when there was areal push to adopt the American spelling system, as such one of our major political parties was renamed 'the Labor Party' and was never changed back to include the u after everyone stopped trying to spell differently.

And if I heard someone say 'pants' when they meant 'trousers', I would correct them

I agree that some people pick and choose, usually the younger generation who don't know any better, but it is actually not acceptable

Really? The only time I ever hear anyone call pants trousers are when they are a part of a suit or something. Most of the time they are specifically referred to as pants. Even in ads.

I, too, have only heard pants used to refer to trousers - and that includes from my grandparents. Trousers for suits though.

Canadian here, but I would say all trousers are pants, but not all pants are trousers.

wise words.

I'm nearly 40 and I use pants to mean undies and trousers interchangeably. It can get confusing.

Do you have any midwinter-ish customs or holidays in June/July? Or does it not get cold/dark enough to really warrant any?

some people celebrate "Christmas in July" but it's more like a made-up Festivus For The Restofus and not taken seriously

Not really.

It can get plenty cold depending on where you are. Snow, etc. But it's just a fun thing some people do.

Christmas, with fake snow, etc, is ridiculous in December or any time of the year where I am in the tropics.

Nope. Heck, in some parts of Australia, winter is just the dry season of the tropics and is nothing but nice mild weather. Everywhere else it's just cold and rainy.

What (if any) regional stereotypes come to mind when you think about people from different parts of Australia?

I feel like I often forget how big and spread out Australia is personally..

South Australia is where serial killers are from.
The Northern Territory is the home of broad Australian accent stereotype- where people walk around wearing singlets, shorts and thongs(flip-flops, speak in a really thick accent and crocodiles are everywhere.
Tasmania is the inbred state.
Victorians (Melbournians in particular) are hipsters.
New South Welshman (Sydneysiders in particular) think they are better than everyone else.
Western Australia is where all the miners live and it totally wants to be its own country.
Queensland is basically just theme parks and weirdo's.
And the only people in the ACT are politicians.

Hahaha, accurate. Also, to add that South Australia is where lots of churches are. (Seriously, when I visited, the main streets had banners for "Freemasonry Awareness Week", so this is probably true.)

Can attest to the Northern Territory accuracy, living there myself.

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We have a pretty big range of ethnic restaurants but the most popular are chinese, indian and thai. Thai is really really popular at the moment.

As for chinese food, I can't really compare it to another countries but I can tell you that a restaurant will usually have a wide variety of dishes like honey chicken, sweet and sour pork/ chicken/ beef, peking duck, mongolian lamb, fried rice, fried ice cream, prawn chips, prawn toast, dumplings, spring rolls etc.

Australia has EVERY kind of food. Particularly somewhere like Melbourne, where the food is amazing and diverse. Not really having any distinctive regional food and being a nation of mostly immigrants from around the world, particularly northern European, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, and South/East/South-East Asian. Except there's now a mostly-arty push to use native "bush tucker" ingredients. I suppose Australia is developing a "fusion" cuisine from cultures around the world, particularly Asian - tends to be quite fresh and tangy. Dunno how Australian Chinese differs from other export Chinese food, except that a lot of it tends to be pretty bland if it's from your local takeaway. Thai, Indian, etc from the local takeaway tends to be ~slightly more authentic.

Australia does have some food unique to it, but they're small things like lamington cakes and having beetroot in your burger.

I'm not surprised if the Chinese food is considered weird. Like the anons above said, we like a lot of foods from around the world but tend to do our own twist on it. Quite a few places have 'aussie' burgers/pizzas/whatever that has ingredients that we tend to like.

No clue if I'm too late but:

Is the plant and animal life in Australia really so overwhelmingly lethal (through poison and/or sharp teeth) that the whole "everything in Australia is out to kill you" has a bit of truth in it?

most of the more deadly animals live in inward australia away from heavily populated areas but you do have to be pretty weary of snakes and spiders. The most common snake is probably the red-belly black snake and the brown snake while the most common spiders are probably the red back and (along the east coast) the sydney funnel web. Of these only the Sydney funnel web could kill you relatively quickly. Its also really aggressive so it will chase you if you find yourself near one. The other three, while venomous, rarely kill anyone because it takes longer for the poison to work its way through your body. Most people have plenty of time to find a hospital and receive antivenom- so long as they are following recommended first aid procedures.

Every Australian checks for spiders in their shoes if they've left them outside overnight and under outdoor seats before they sit on them. Spider bites aren't pleasant.

(Of course this is the perspective from someone on the east coast, it will be different for someone from the west or outback)

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