1/26/2023 Question of the day

[petrea_mitchell]

Australia Day: If you are not Australian, have you ever been to Australia? How much do you know about Australia? If you went to school somewhere other than Australia, how much were you taught about Australia in school?

I've never been to Australia. There were plans for a household trip to New Zealand for the 2020 Worldcon until stuff happened, but that's as close as I've ever had a chance to get. (Similarly, I've been to the UK but not continental Europe, and Japan but not mainland Asia. Not sure what this says about me.)

I know some random facts about Australia, like that the world's longest stretch of straight railway runs across something called the Nullarbor Plain. In school I was taught the same basics that every child in the US learns about Australia, which is that it's a continent and contains kangaroos.