Australia (Austraya as the locals say) is often grouped together with New Zealand, and it is often that you hear of stories of tourists arriving in New Zealand and expecting to drive over a bridge between the countries. Or others who are surprised that New Zealand doesn't have kangaroos. In fact there are actually a lot of things that New Zealand doesn't have that Australia does, and many of these we are very, very glad we don't have. Snakes, Crocodiles, Poisonous spiders, Box Jellyfish, Endless Desert, Pauline Hanson, VB, and Australian Blokes, to name just a few. Actually, other than the fact New Zealand and Australia are reasonably close geographically (the equivalent distance of the UK to the Ukraine), we have very little in common. We arrived in Australia not just because the oversized island was
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