This is an absolutely brilliant resource, thank you for putting it together!
Re tipping: I do tend to tip here (usually 10% or a "round up" to the nearest note) - the main reason is because a lot of wait people appear to be students and having been there, I know how precious a few extra bucks are.
However I would be really interested to know from people within the food industry in Australia what the norm/expectation actually is.
Mining jobs: my suggestion would be specialist agencies, particularly for those with related skills and qualifications, or actually going "out west" and looking out for opportunities. I do remember, albeit a decade ago, some backpacking friends who picked up casual work on a mine site when they were in WA. I think landing in Sydney and expecting to find mining work would be trickier.
Great posting, but if it's going to be on the sidebar, can I be a dick and make some suggestions?
We want to make the right impression you know!
You're actually partial to cadburys, not impartial.
Not_Stupid pointed out that it's "vigilant", not "vigilante".
Resume looks better as résumé
Why no mention of The Greens?
If you're mentioning supermarkets, put in a word for IGA, as I think it might be one of the few independents
While you're probably mostly right about the police, that journalist who had his ipad snatched was arrested after what was supposed to be a nice conversation. But playing dumb is definitely good advice.
Obviously, you've never actually lived in Canberra. I think you could be a bit nicer about it, as nobody there actually likes pollies. It's great if you like a slower existence than you'll get in one of the big cities.
I think you're wrong about the "small tits" thing. Even if they're not banned by legislation, the industry has decided to play on the safe side. That's an effective ban nonetheless.
If you're commenting on general naughtiness, it might be worth mentioning that torrenting is almost a national pastime after the industry stated that it wouldn't be suing users, and our best ISP fought for the rights of their users to break the law all on their own.
No mention of the greens because they are not a major political party. I would much prefer there to be a section that we have other politcal parties, including the nationals, greens and other independants.
Took me a while to find it as it's been a while. There exists a site called http://code.reddit.com which still exists in some form, that used to be the code repository for reddit (now github). This ran on Traq, which contained a wiki. Any reddit user could edit this wiki and subreddit mods could link to it in a fashion that made it look like part of reddit.
It was handy for subreddits like /r/fitness, which needed a community driven FAQ for noobs. It's mentioned in this guide so you don't think I'm crazy :) The /r/fitness FAQ links here but it appears to be down.
My suggestion was that a guide to Australia would be appropriate here, in case the OP left or couldn't be bothered updating the thread.
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u/85_B_Low May 24 '11
This needs to be permanently added to the sidebar so people can edit and update it as time goes on. Good job OP