Tag: UK Australian News

Life in London can be described as hectic at best. With a population of over seven million and everyone in a hurry to get somewhere, a laid back 21-year old Aussie student was definitely in for the shock of his life.

People often ask me why I left Australia; the English just can’t seem to comprehend it. They cite the weather, beaches, girls and attitudes as clinching proof that you must be insane to leave. And, I can never seem to give them an answer which satisfies them — or me.

RIGHT SAID ED | I've got to hand it to the Poms. Watching Guy Fawkes Night in and across the UK is one of my greatest thrills.

Some of my Pommy mates reckon I take things too far sometimes. I support Australia and anyone who is playing England. I don’t see why I have to relax my sporting beliefs just because I live here in the UK.

LEIGH JOHNSTON explores why living in a London backpackers hostel can be one of life’s most enriching experiences.

Back in Australia, I had an annual dose of horse racing on the first Tuesday in November courtesy of 'the race that stops the nation', the Melbourne Cup. Every year from early primary school I was part of a sweep, crowded round a TV at ten to three and cheered ...

To mo or not to mo? That is the questions that thousands of people around the world will be asking themselves in the lead up to this years Movember.

Aussies swarm to the UK like ‘scousers to a tash convention’ but sometimes we can get a bit mixed up with all the different lingo. NINA McGRATH explores the weird and wonderful world of British slang.

Now that the rugby has well and truly wound up and we have to wait ‘four more years’ until the next World Cup, CHRIS ARK brings the focus back to one of his favourite seasons of the food calendar: The Game Season.

GO HARD OR GO HOME | Overall, I think I do a pretty good job of fitting in with the Brits. It helps that our homelands and cultures are so similar. But there are times when I feel like a bit of an alien.

RIGHT SAID ED | Australians living in the UK are a fairly tight community. We drink together, we play together, we travel together and together we reserve the right to whinge about the weather and whinge about the whinging Poms.

Sometimes it feels as if the renting business is an ongoing battle. Sinister feudal masters against the meek and vulnerable that just don’t stand a chance. So, it's time to take issue with Landlords.

What can you say about this Indian summer, other than it's a gift from heaven.

RIGHT SAID ED | It was my birthday last week and as I prepared to celebrate turning yet another year 'younger', it dawned on me that sometimes in England, the Poms have things round the wrong way a little.

Sometimes it’s best not to ask, don’t enquire, just walk away from Morris Dancers.

It’s been several days since my first Oktoberfest experience and the recovery process is not going well.

A helpful observation of greetings for new Aussie settlers to our motherland.

Is there some way I can get a UK spousal visa because of my fiancée’s passport?

For most Australians, coming to live in London is certainly challenging and regularly frustrating, but altogether probably the most thrilling and rewarding experience of our lives. Occasionally though, the subtle British cultural quirks and London’s social idiosyncrasies wear down an Aussie’s typical cheer. The city gets the best of them; ...

It occurred to me the other day that I have been living with an Australian for far too long. It's not that I don't like Aussies. Just their behaviour starts to become infectious after a while and that isn't good for us proper Brits.

Winter is the hardest time of year here in the UK without doubt. No Christmas BBQs. No New Year’s beach parties. No Australia Day sunburn. And I have just realised it is only just around the corner.

GO HARD OR GO HOME: There's a myth here in the UK that Australians and Kiwis don’t get along. I’d never heard of this so-called rivalry until I moved to the UK and, well, I really don’t like it.

Why do Aussies make the tortuous slog to a place where warm beer, 4pm darkness and bitterly cold winters are staple? Well, there's a whole host of reasons. From travel to music and even careers, Aussies are finding it all in London.