timppu: Why I don't come to Australia? It is too far from everywhere, even from Australia itself.
I find it funny how paranoid Australians are if you try to bring a bag of peanuts or a banana to their soil like it is very dangerous to their flora and fauna, like a koala eating the peanuts and becoming berzerk or something. (Yes I've seen the Australian border control TV show.) They should be more concerned that their venomous spiders, snakes, bats and sharks don't get out of Australia! I am even more scared of those things than I am of Aussies themselves.
BTW, koalas are like ducks. They seem so cute and all, but when it comes to sex, they are quite violent rapists. I am not kidding you, google for "koala porn" or something like that.
Its not paranoia, its bureaucracy.
Our Bureaucratic system even puts the Vorlons of Hitchickers guide to the galaxy to shame!
Also our state religion is the 'nanny state' of all nanny states - if its in any way dangerous, we have thought of ways of regulating it or banning it to death..... frankly i am surprised we are still allowed to go outside our homes!!!
If in the future you see a person walking down the street padded with pillows, blinking lights, helmet, life jacket and EPERP hanging off them, you can be sure that is an Australian! We have gone Fuxxing safety mad down here, SERIOUSLY.
Common sense and freedom are two concepts long forgotten down here in Australia.
https://www.thechronicle.com.au/news/council-officers-sink-pool-plans-1000-application-/2473933/
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/10-ways-sydneysiders-will-break-the-law-today--without-even-realising-20151007-gk3dsy.html http://www.traveller.com.au/australia-the-land-of-the-idiot-gi36oy