View Poll Results: How Australian do you actually feel.
0-2 - Not in the slighest and almost certain I never will
14
36.84%
3-5 - Didn't at all, but some Australian feelings are coming through.g to occur
4
10.53%
5-7: The UK (Or whereever) is starting to feel like a distant memory "Mate"
13
34.21%
8-10: Strewth mate was I ever anything else?
7
18.42%
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How "Australian" do you feel.
Dec 28th 2019, 12:22 am
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Re: How "Australian" do you feel.
The word has been Maroon during my lengthen life. My school colours were maroon and gold and my favourite fitba' team's colour was maroon. Neither were ever pronounced marone
Dec 31st 2019, 1:35 am
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Re: How "Australian" do you feel.
. The volunteers here in SA could do with that break right now too.
Feb 16th 2020, 8:16 am
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Re: How "Australian" do you feel.
Jun 19th 2020, 2:27 pm
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Re: How "Australian" do you feel.
This is an interesting thread that seems to have fizzled out, but here's my tuppence-worth:
Been here nearly 10 years now ...Wow don't the years go by!
Still feeling more British than anything else, but happy and very much at home here in Australia, and citizens now too. While feeling still very British I also feel like an Australian in the loyalty/belonging sense and it's extra easy to reconcile the two since both countries share the same Queen. My kids are both grown up now, settled, doing very well and are happy here. We're looking at retirement soon, just the last couple of work laps to go then grey nomadding - both here and when we can get out - overseas too. We might stay away for a while but I think we'll likely end up back here. Would be nice to move somewhere further north and warmer though - perhaps the NSW north coast?
But there's heaps of things I miss about my old home, in London, UK. The sense of humour - though Aussies have one too but its rather different. Nice when I come across an Aussie that completely gets the British sense of humour though. The comradely sarcasm shared by all when waiting at the end of a long queue or for that bus where we all wait for ages then three turn up together. ...The history and architecture. ...The entertainment, London's Chinatown, the West End.... just as a start...
Been here nearly 10 years now ...Wow don't the years go by!
Still feeling more British than anything else, but happy and very much at home here in Australia, and citizens now too. While feeling still very British I also feel like an Australian in the loyalty/belonging sense and it's extra easy to reconcile the two since both countries share the same Queen. My kids are both grown up now, settled, doing very well and are happy here. We're looking at retirement soon, just the last couple of work laps to go then grey nomadding - both here and when we can get out - overseas too. We might stay away for a while but I think we'll likely end up back here. Would be nice to move somewhere further north and warmer though - perhaps the NSW north coast?
But there's heaps of things I miss about my old home, in London, UK. The sense of humour - though Aussies have one too but its rather different. Nice when I come across an Aussie that completely gets the British sense of humour though. The comradely sarcasm shared by all when waiting at the end of a long queue or for that bus where we all wait for ages then three turn up together. ...The history and architecture. ...The entertainment, London's Chinatown, the West End.... just as a start...
Jun 20th 2020, 12:12 am
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Re: How "Australian" do you feel.
I'm proud of my Irish heritage as are many Irish Australians and I still have a bit of my Irish accent but having been in Australia for 56 years, what to you reckon?
Jun 22nd 2020, 2:02 am
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Re: How "Australian" do you feel.
Have been here for 54 years but do not feel the least bit Australian. Have had a good life here and would only say good things about it as it has been good to me but a Scot I will always be.
Jun 22nd 2020, 8:22 am
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Re: How "Australian" do you feel.
53 years up and all the pommy has gone thank god!
Jun 23rd 2020, 6:43 am
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Re: How "Australian" do you feel.
I'm with you, I don't understand the comment at all!
Personally I feel less and less Australian as time goes on, especially with the current COVID virus making so many people anti-foreigner. arguing to keep everyone out as long as possible, never reopen borders etc. I feel it is making the country more insular than ever. The fact I can no longer travel, and have to face spending the rest of my life and death trapped here is really affecting me now.
Having said that, work is rather interesting these days wwith my immediate reporting line being Supervisor from Accrington, then managers from Bournemouth, Burnley and Brighton!
Personally I feel less and less Australian as time goes on, especially with the current COVID virus making so many people anti-foreigner. arguing to keep everyone out as long as possible, never reopen borders etc. I feel it is making the country more insular than ever. The fact I can no longer travel, and have to face spending the rest of my life and death trapped here is really affecting me now.
Having said that, work is rather interesting these days wwith my immediate reporting line being Supervisor from Accrington, then managers from Bournemouth, Burnley and Brighton!
Jun 23rd 2020, 11:30 am
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Re: How "Australian" do you feel.
I'm with you, I don't understand the comment at all!
Personally I feel less and less Australian as time goes on, especially with the current COVID virus making so many people anti-foreigner. arguing to keep everyone out as long as possible, never reopen borders etc. I feel it is making the country more insular than ever. The fact I can no longer travel, and have to face spending the rest of my life and death trapped here is really affecting me now.
Having said that, work is rather interesting these days wwith my immediate reporting line being Supervisor from Accrington, then managers from Bournemouth, Burnley and Brighton!
Personally I feel less and less Australian as time goes on, especially with the current COVID virus making so many people anti-foreigner. arguing to keep everyone out as long as possible, never reopen borders etc. I feel it is making the country more insular than ever. The fact I can no longer travel, and have to face spending the rest of my life and death trapped here is really affecting me now.
Having said that, work is rather interesting these days wwith my immediate reporting line being Supervisor from Accrington, then managers from Bournemouth, Burnley and Brighton!