Hey Australia.....

:lofl: That's not going to happen but when we were planning for decimal currency some fanciful names were suggested.

The Treasurer of the day, Harold Holt, wanted it called the royal, other suggestions were kwid, the champ, the deci-mate and the hughes (after an early and controversial PM) as well as the austral and the emu. The public rubbished all of them and we went with the dollar.

http://www.smh.com.au/money/on-the-money/holts-folly-one-royal-we-rejected-20130603-2nmoa.html
 
Linda wow! I have heard a recording of its sound. It's not like anything else in the world!

Warrigal re funny-money, I think if not dollarydoo, then it should be koala.
 
Linda said:
Obviously a play on words. I wonder if I am the only one of this forum who owns a didgeridoo, which is a wind instrument from, I believe northern Australia?
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I bought one as an xmas gift one year. I've got some wooden boomerangs (only for decoration as they don't work), and some other Australian artwork.
 
We have a didge that we bought in Alice Springs but it is a tourist version (too thick) and too hard to play. You need to practise a special breathing technique which my grandson has mastered. If a didgeridoo is added to traditional orchestral instruments the effect is very arresting and uniquely Australian.
 
"Uluru"

I want so badly to see this myself, in person:



Ayers Rock.


At sunset. Am I mistaken, or was it shown and identified in "Crocodile Dundee"? What a great movie! The closest sizable town is Alice Springs. Absolutely beautiful!

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Groan, Ken! :D

I'd love to see Uluru and the Great Barrier Reef. Been to Melbourne and Sydney and places in between, and south to Great Ocean Road.
 
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