From: Alejandro Dubrovsky (s328940@student.uq.edu.au)
Date: Mon Feb 03 2003 - 08:41:27 MST
On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 16:32, Damien Broderick wrote:
> Mike Lorrey asks:
>
> > Don't mean to be rude, but how much stuff actually goes on in Oz? You'd
> > have to go planetary to fill up a paper or broadcast... ;)
>
> That's true almost anywhere, of course (how much stuff actually goes on in
> Buttfuzz, Ohio?), but perhaps the real reason Oz media are so cosmopolitan
> is that so large a proportion of the population arrived from Europe and Asia
> in the last couple of generations.
You must be living in a different Australia. In the Australia I live
in, the rest of the world means UK and the US, the commercial television
stations make me puke, and the newspapers world section contain three
pages, one of which will be an article on princess Anne's latest hairdo.
alejandro
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