"It's an an entire nation of rather normal white people that nobody no's about."
well eph,talk about gross generalisations,considering we have an indigenous population,which after a few searches I cant seem to pull up the stats on-maybe they are as invisible to the net as to the rest of the world as when the Europeans declared Terra Nullus-no-one home.
in our small rural town we have a large African refugee community-mostly Dinka-extremely tall and just so elegant in their dress and manner they are like flowers in a desert.
as a now recognised part of asia it is not uncommon to go to lunchtime in downtown Melbourne and play "spot the white aussie"-seriously-
as for no-one knowing about us-google Australia and Sport,come to think of it google Australia and anything,politics and you will see we have always historically punched way above our weight limit.
I worked in N.J.and travelled extensively throughout most of your beautiful country in the early 90`s and the one thing that stuck in my mind was that most Americans seemed to believe that being the biggest and the best means there`s nothing else to see and the percentage of Americans with passports is one of the lowest ,per capita ,of any developed nation.
speaking of travelling,which aussies are particularly noted for-I spent a lot of time in Africa and Asia and one of the greatest thrills is finding yourself the only white person in a crowd-especially without your mother tongue.
nothing personal eph-but get out and see the world while it`s still available.
cheers