Houses were for the most part pretty run down, trashed cars sitting in front yards, and piles of firewood absolutely everywhere.Interestingly enough, Zeehan is similar and it doesn't seem to have that same aura. Had a really big one in a house I was renting for a while as well. When I asked whether "not dangerous" meant those kinds of spiders aren't venomous he answered "Nah we'd still have to drive you to the emergency room. Once again the word apartheid is often used in association with this town.

EDIT: thanks for the discussion. I don't usually hang around long enough to get an idea of the locals so can't comment on some of the other towns mentioned in this thread, but Queenstown is probably the most charmless place you're going to find to put a town until someone founds one at the bottom of an open cut mine (or maybe a volcano).A lot of the townships in the Western Downs/Surat Basin area of Qld are getting pretty rough. Non-Aussies of reddit, when you visited Australia, what was the most unexpected thing you saw there? Guy walks into the water, picks one up with both hands, walks up to us like "guys I haven't seen those before, anyone know what kind that is? The only people were the hotel staff, who were just straight up bizarre.
They are curious, but really cautious.I just went cage diving with great whites and was surprised at how skittish even I wish I could find the news article and refresh on the details, but I'm certain I heard a news story a while back along the lines of:Shark attack/accident in the water, someone injured on the beach. Racism can be seen by the actions of the council, police, transit guards and by members of the public. 85% Upvoted. Whole thing was cancelled about half an hour in when 8 police came in and arrested an entire band (another one of the shitty supports) and closed the venue down.

And if you win in Wilcannia no celebrating just get straight on the bus when you leave the feild before you get glassed.That was my first thought too. I remember laughing with dad about it.The colourful flocks of birds. Racism affects our people every day in this country. *Whyalla SA, - human feces in the caravan park, ran into a group of three tradies that treatened to rape my two female travel companionsand collie WA - the shops on the main strip have metal bars, there's Nazi graffiti in the outskirts of the town, ran into two local ~30 yo guys who said they wanted to murder some "city people".Yeah Collie is a weird place. Before I clicked on this post I wondered if it would get a mention, but I thought to myself "nah, Australia's a big place, and it'll probably be mostly towns from the eastern states anyway" but here we are.I guess if you're going to be shit, might as well be famously shit.I read the UK thread and we've managed to top it I reckon - anyone reading this would think mad max is a doco.I knew Frankston was bad, but I didn't know it was bad on a Wasn't that also the place that, according to Tones PM, was supposedly going to be wiped off the map by the carbon tax? Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcutsCookies help us deliver our Services. !How casual australians act around local wildlife was the most surprising thing for me (german) when I went there.Lots of little Jellyfish in the water close to Sydney harbor? Done!! Toowoomba was even labelled as Australia’s most racist city by a former Aboriginal resident after it was discovered the town was one of the first in Australia to begin selling Golliwogs after they started disappearing from shelves in the 1960’s.
Instead of trying to rid yourselves of guilt, how about challenging those being racist and asking why more isn’t being done to stamp it out?Your one minute chats often make no real difference to our lives when we know the big players like the government and the media are hell bent on marginalising our people. Documentaries and debates on ABC & SBS simply do not reach the masses.Write CSS OR LESS and hit save.

This is my first thread. Online booking site Wotif has announced the winners of its 2019 Town of the Year awards, shining the spotlight on 10 deserving locations across Australia that have made a unique contribution to Australia… Shit weather and bogan people even by Tassie standards. Nearly three billion animals were killed or displaced by Australia's unprecedented 2019-20 wildfires in "one of the worst wildlife disasters in modern history", according to a report released Tuesday.