What attributes identify YOU as being Australian

[poddster]

Here is your chance to stand up and be counted

[cherry*135]

The changing face of the average Aussie

April 2013

The national stereotype has it that no Australian would ever look upon themselves as "average".

Instead, outsiders tend to think of "quintessential Aussies" - ruggedly individualist types with a bawdy sense of humour and a self-confidence bordering on the downright cocky.

But after mulling over the most up-to-date census data, the country's Bureau of Statistics has come up with its own stereotype-busting definition of the so-called average Aussie.

Suffice to say, we are not dealing with some ocker on the veranda of an outback watering hole, raising a schooner of ice-cold beer with one hand and swatting away flies with the other. Nor has the Australian Bureau of Statistics plucked a character from the teenage cast of an afternoon "soap", or some blonde Adonis from the surf at Bondi.

No, the "average Australian" is evidently a 37-year-old woman, married with two children, who lives in a three-bedroom house in a suburb of one of Australia's capital cities. Its average Australian is a wholly different character from the imagined Australian.

Any attempt to define a nation by one person is bound to be met by scepticism. But in a country where the prime minister, the governor-general and the richest person - the mining magnate, Gina Rinehart - are all women, the latest data confirms what demographers have long known: Australia is becoming a more female country.  [YAY, girl power!]

The "average Australian" still is born in Australia, as were her parents. But in this polyglot nation, with such a rich multicultural flavour, that is likely to change soon. More than a quarter of Australians are already born overseas - 26% - and only 54% have parents who were both born within these shores.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22213218

[1sweetap6v8]

am*3     

you said this

April 2013

The national stereotype has it that no Australian would ever look upon themselves as "average".

Instead, outsiders tend to think of "quintessential Aussies" - ruggedly individualist types with a bawdy sense of humour and a self-confidence bordering on the downright cocky.

But after mulling over the most up-to-date census data, the country's Bureau of Statistics has come up with its own stereotype-busting definition of the so-called average Aussie.

Suffice to say, we are not dealing with some ocker on the veranda of an outback watering hole, raising a schooner of ice-cold beer with one hand and swatting away flies with the other. Nor has the Australian Bureau of Statistics plucked a character from the teenage cast of an afternoon "soap", or some blonde Adonis from the surf at Bondi.

No, the "average Australian" is evidently a 37-year-old woman, married with two children, who lives in a three-bedroom house in a suburb of one of Australia's capital cities. Its average Australian is a wholly different character from the imagined Australian.

Any attempt to define a nation by one person is bound to be met by scepticism. But in a country where the prime minister, the governor-general and the richest person - the mining magnate, Gina Rinehart - are all women, the latest data confirms what demographers have long known: Australia is becoming a more female country.  [YAY, girl power!]

The "average Australian" still is born in Australia, as were her parents. But in this polyglot nation, with such a rich multicultural flavour, that is likely to change soon. More than a quarter of Australians are already born overseas - 26% - and only 54% have parents who were both born within these shores.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22213218

Only problem here is your female PM was never elected buy the people and is no longer PM its now again a man, your Gov General only got her job because she is the Mother  in law to Bill Shorten  Mr knife I think they call him, and as for the richest women in Ghina, you forgot to mention she only got that way due to inheritance from a man.

[izabsmiling]

 your Gov General 

who is your Gov General ?

[katydidthat]

Well, I had an Australian mother, and a Welsh Dad, I was born in England, my mother's family was Irish and were sent out here in around 1828 as convicts ... if the weather were better over there, I'd live in Wales or France ... 

I identify as Australian because I live here, really.  I live here because all up, I like it better than most other places I've been to.  

[izabsmiling]

Well , I am an Aussie.It's so obvious that I once got a message telling me just that..nothing else..it said  "You are an Aussie too" 

[izabsmiling]

bit strange really ...I didn't reply 

[1sweetap6v8]

izabsmiling   

                You asked------------                who is your Gov General .

                                                        Not the one you worship thats fo sure.

[izabsmiling]

Worship the Gov General ? 

fact: my Gov General is the Aussie one

[***super_nova***]

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@catmad*2013 wrote:

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@***super_nova*** wrote:

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@catmad*2013 wrote:

Honesty and mate ship are what I identify as being Australian. 

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that implies that people from other countries are less honest and do not have strong friendship bonds.  Which is offensive.

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OMG.. are you for real???? 

There are many countires that I think have the same qualities that we do..... 

The question was about what identifies ME as being Australian....

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Well, exactly if being honest & good mate is not unique to Australians, so it does not identify you as being an Aussie, does it?   There is really nothing that identifies Australians from citizens of other countries except, as mentioned above, birth certificate or citizenship certificate.

[lakeland27]

"your Gov General only got her job because she is the Mother  in law to Bill Shorten" 

umm she wasn't at the time of her appointment. Buzzer