Thread: Bad news for your Australians!

Originally Posted by HangOver

...Huh ?

I thought all "Australians" where first and formost English anyhow as Australia is a British colony and a Commonwealth member?

Originally Posted by Tango51

Funny. As an Aussie try getting a visa to G.B

Don't get us started - yes we are a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations, just like Canada, Pakistan, India and Zimbabwe!

We are not an English colony, although we were a colony of the British crown was a historical fact 108 years ago.

The fact is that a lot of Australian immigrants pre-Federation in 1901 were Irish political convicts and Irish fleeing the "Potato Famine" caused by wealthy land owning English. It is also noteworthy that most of the convicts stayed at the end of their imprisonment while many of the British soldiers and sailors were repatriated at the end of their enlistment.

Since the United Kingdom entered the European Economic Community in the 1960's, Australians have required a Visa to enter the UK, so it is only right and just that we treat U.K citizens in the same manner as we treat Romanians and Mexicans.

So we are happy to call Betty Windsor the Queen of Australia, but are not very happy to be called an English Colony.

Although we are happy to serve you a beer (ale) that has been left out of the fridge so that the shock is not too much for your palate!

Diana

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Although we are happy to serve you a beer (ale) that has been left out of the fridge so that the shock is not too much for your palate!

Diana

Yuk! Didn't drink that stuff in England, so not likely to here with the weather a good few degrees hotter.

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

So we are happy to call Betty Windsor the Queen of Australia, but are not very happy to be called an English Colony.

I was of course just joking around I just knew someone would bite

I moved here to Oz about four years ago and it really is the second best thing we have ever done. Never regreted it for a moment and will never live in the UK again. It was very difficult getting a visa but thats life I suppose.

As far as a ruling monarchy / government or what economic / political ties Australia has or has not I dont really care one way or another I'm just happy too live here and glad to say our son is Australian, (he was born here).

Originally Posted by HangOver

I was of course just joking around I just knew someone would bite

I moved here to Oz about four years ago and it really is the second best thing we have ever done. Never regreted it for a moment and will never live in the UK again. It was very difficult getting a visa but thats life I suppose.

As far as a ruling monarchy / government or what economic / political ties Australia has or has not I dont really care one way or another I'm just happy too live here and glad to say our son is Australian, (he was born here).

Welcome and please get your citizenship!
Plenty are glad to live here and enjoy but this is also a matter of contention, so please do the right thing by us!
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Thanks Diana!
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People may bite and I love a joke or a stir up, but it is painful to me.....and many.
I serve Poms that make comments like that beer, but I blow the dust off the top of tinnies I retrieve from the trunk in the middle of a summers day and glass it for them

Warm beer.

Originally Posted by jik22

Yuk! Didn't drink that stuff in England, so not likely to here with the weather a good few degrees hotter.

A friend of our family was a maintenance chief in the RAN and was posted to the UK to learn maintenance of the Sea King Helicopters before they arrived in Oz. By the end of the first week in their new billets, the the RAN crew had refrigerated one line for the beer taps at the local inn.

At last report about 15 years after they left the line was still refrigerated.

Diana

Originally Posted by Tango51

Welcome and please get your citizenship!

We where both made citizens as soon as we where eligable.
You have to wait a year, (two now I think?) before you can apply.

Originally Posted by Tango51

People may bite and I love a joke or a stir up, but it is painful to me.....and many.
I serve Poms that make comments like that beer, but I blow the dust off the top of tinnies I retrieve from the trunk in the middle of a summers day and glass it for them

comments ?
you mean they ask for/want warm beer????

or about the commonwealth?

Originally Posted by HangOver

We where both made citizens as soon as we where eligable.
You have to wait a year, (two now I think?) before you can apply.



comments ?
you mean they ask for/want warm beer????

or about the commonwealth?

Yes, about the commonwealth and presumed ownership....and they got it whether they asked for it or not
Congratulations Aussies, now cut out the painful baiting ok

Originally Posted by HangOver

You have to wait a year, (two now I think?) before you can apply.

Its 4 years now! we got in just before the 2 years thing ran out... and we will be getting ours as soon as the 2 years is over! we'll be proud to call ourselves aussies..

i do know a few people that are here just to get their citizenship and then go back to the UK? cant understand why and they just winge about australia... too hot, too many flies, too expensive (god knows where they shop) my reply? i think you should go now..

congrats on the Visa leeds.. im sure you will love it... and the people, be they aussie or pom... everyone we have met has been great (and there are quite a few too!) (excepting the wingers )

Thanks

Steve