Australia

From The Room: Sorry!

February 13, 2008 - It was a momentous day in Australian history today...of course you all know why right?...No? Today, the Australian government finally said "SORRY" to the Aboriginal people for over 200 years of genocide, discrimination, abuse and generally crap treatment. All it took was years of Sorry petitions, So...

Australia apologizes to their version of black people

January 30, 2008 - Australia's new prime minister, Kevin Rudd, will issue an apology to his country's indigenous people, the Aborigines. From 1910 to the 1970s, approximately 100,000 mixed-blood Aboriginal children were taken from their parents because the government believed them to be a doomed race. An official expl...

From The Room: Christmas Is "Special" No Matter Where You Live

December 27, 2007 - After years and years of wondering if Santa was sweating under that heavy suit and thinking that lighting the Christmas pudding was a fire hazard finally living in the Northern Hemisphere has finally made sens of it for me. When you are a child growing up in Australia there are...

From The Room: Crocodile DoubleDee

December 11, 2007 - WTF Australia? Australia, I just don't get you sometimes. You're constant redefinition of the English language can go from ridiculously great to atrocious in a single week. I'm not sure how you were able to pull it off, but my sincerest congratulations and thanks for redefining science...

From The Room: Where the War on Christmas Begins, the War on Hos Begins

November 15, 2007 - For fear of getting Imused, the staffing company that supplies Santas to the majority of Australia's shopping malls has banned its white bearded charges from using "ho, ho, ho," Santa's traditiona...

From The Room: Banning the N Word

November 8, 2007 - This Tuesday a city councilman in Los Angeles introduced a resolution to make it illegal for residents of the nation's second-largest city to use the N word. As a foreigner who was brought up to believe that every...