Reaction to Random WEIRD THINGS in Australia 

1. Who still listens to 'Commercial Radio'!!?? (She may fallen in with the 'wrong' type of people!) In Australia if you want news that you can believe from the radio, you listen to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (Australia's national public broadcaster) stations which have NO commercials. 2. Petrol prices. Basically prices are cheaper earlier in the week and increase before and during the weekend (when people are often going to need more). There are number of apps. you can get for phone which will find you the cheapest price near you. ('Petrol Spy' is one.) 3. 'Lolly' can be any sweet confection. In the U.K. 'lolly' can be slang for money and what Australians might call an 'icy pole' in the U.K. is an 'ice lolly'. 4. In the lead up to Federation it was agreed that neither Sydney nor Melbourne could be the Capital. The Constitution that came into effect on the first day of the 20th century (January 1 1901), had this in Section 125: "Seat of Government. The seat of Government of the Commonwealth shall be determined by the Parliament, and shall be within territory which shall have been granted to or acquired by the Commonwealth, and shall be vested in and belong to the Commonwealth, and shall be in the State of New South Wales, and be distant not less than one hundred miles from Sydney. Such territory shall contain an area of not less than one hundred square miles, and such portion thereof as shall consist of Crown lands shall be granted to the Commonwealth without any payment therefor. The Parliament shall sit at Melbourne until it meet at the seat of Government." (Melbourne had buildings which could accommodate temporarily both the Victorian State Parliament and the new Federal Parliament.) (The Federal Parliament moved to Canberra in 1927.) That it seems odd to our Dutch RU-vidr is itself a little odd when the capital of the Netherlands (the Hague) is the only 3rd largest city in the Country. (I would guess most people if other countries, if asked would guess 'Amsterdam' to be the 'Capital'.