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That’s not my experience of Australians at all! The Australians I’ve met (through working for an Australian company) all seem to love their nanny state, and genuinely don’t understand how anyone could see anything undesirable in it.


Because you're meeting the ones so content they don't leave.

All the things people are saying here about Australians are the same complaints Americans in the west have about Californians.


Somehow the same country that venerates Ned Kelly


You only have to watch one episode of Aussie Dash Cams to see how we Australians feel about authority.

Freedom for me, but cheering when someone else gets caught by the police when they are breaking the law. It’s an odd dichotomy. I don’t hate it but we do seem to lack self awareness with a slightly English style.


It might be useful here to give a current example or two of Aussie nanny statism, just for context





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