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You need to check out places like New Caledonia, Fiji, Vanuatu, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, or Tonga. They may be off radar for Canadians, but they're as distinct from each other as they are from Australia. Perhaps Canadians view "the world" as North America and Europe?
Places like Darwin (NT), Melbourne (Vic), regional NSW and Qld, and Hobart are all very different places, offering different lifestyles, career options, social environments and population mixes. Add to that Australia's higher proportion of migrants in its population base.
Australia may lack the English/French divide of Canada and its spillover into politics, and hasn't experienced the degree of conflict with its first inhabitants that Canada has in recent history, but they're not the only markers of diversity. But I would agree that Australia seems more cohesive in terms of its sense national identity and is more at ease in being "Australian" than Canada seems to be in being "Canadian".
Right on
Whoever claims that Australia and surrounding places are not as diverse as Canada they clearly speak out of ignorance......someone should visit Tasmania and then go to the Northern Territory or Queensland....
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Canada has Thousands of LAKES and miles of FOREST..
Really?? Australia has not forests?? How many miles of beautiful coral barrier reef Canada has???
Really?? Australia has not forests?? How many miles of beautiful coral barrier reef Canada has???
Well duh of course Australia has forests but Canada has more and the animals are not weird like Australia... You no bears not some man eating spider with extra legs and land Sharks..LOL
Chevy is intelligent enough to know that not all experiences are his.
You didn't work in high-tech in the 1980s, did you? In those days, you worked, because you were told to, and because everybody else did, and so you did too. Ninety hours a week? Yes, you worked that, because you were told to. We had the next biggest mousetrap, and if you did not believe so, you were letting the team down, you were shirking, you just might be next on the chopping block. Get i the office on weekends, arrive before hours on weekdays, and stay after hours on weekdays, and we will be the next Apple, the next Microsoft, the next IBM.
You doubt me? Oh, friend, do not do so. Listen.
I was told I'd lose my job if I did not show up on weekends. Unpaid, of course. I was told that regular weekday office hours were 0700 to 2100 hours--extra hours over 44 per week unpaid, of course. After all, I believed in the product, didn't I? Wanting time off or regular office hours meant that I didn't believe such. And we truly believed that we were the next Apple, the next Microsoft, the next IBM, the next Blackberry. Weren't we? (Like hell, but in order to keep our jobs, we repeated the party line.)
And most galling--I was told that, as I was unmarried, without children, I had no excuse for not being at work before hours, after hours, and weekends. My co-workers with children got the time; I did not. Yeah, I'm still pissed.
I'm talking about the 1980s. Long before companies learned that they had to obey employment legislation, that they had to learn human rights legislation, and long before companies learned that they couldn't breach such legislation any more. Shouldn't be a surprise, but I now practice in this area, and I make sure that companies tow the line.
Fusion. the reason that you and your co-workers don't have to go through what I did (and indeed, doubt what I went through) is because of my efforts, and those of my colleagues, thirty years ago. You can at least say "thank you."
Dude or should I say sir lol - this is not the 80's ... Its 2014.. lord in the 80's I was watching Wrestlemania with my cousin anyway in 2014 most people in T.O don't work 80 hours a week and half for free - if you had a hand in that THANK YOU CHevy I love you Chevy MUAH..
Our tropical landscapes are way bet..... Well, we have tropical landscapes...
Both countries have unique landscapes the other doesn't lol...Even in N.A the Canadian Rockies are different than the U.S Rockies let alone two countries thousands of miles apart on opposite sides of the equator.
Well duh of course Australia has forests but Canada has more and the animals are not weird like Australia... You no bears not some man eating spider with extra legs and land Sharks..LOL
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... Its 2014.. lord in the 80's I was watching Wrestlemania with my cousin anyway in 2014 most people in T.O don't work 80 hours a week and half for free - if you had a hand in that THANK YOU CHevy I love you Chevy MUAH.. 
