One Russian girl has been to Australia recently and took these pictures, here’s an extract of what she wrote about the natives:

"The Aborigines have a culture of thousands of years. Today’s life of these people is not that easy, even though the government give them enough of cash benefits it doesn’t make it better. While the "whites", in the absence of their culture, open art galleries, selling aboriginal paintings for quite big money (from 3,000 to 40,000 dollars), create shops, where you can draw a picture together with Aboriginal people. The Aborigines from there side, rent their land, such as the famous Uluru or Ayers Rock.

I photographed them mostly in secret, sometimes from the car. A couple of times, they asked money for a picture.. twenty bucks. When I asked them: "Can I take a photo?" they responded: "Take picture of him" pointing at their neighbor."

Apparently, not all Australians are willing to take a parking ticket lying down. This particular Australian wrote a very amusing, yet quite sensible, letter to the city. It seems he simply walked to the trunk of his car to get his briefcase before walking to the ticket machine to pay for his parking when he was ticketed. It does seem a bit unfair, ay Mate?

Australian local authorities have announced Toad Day Out. On this day all citizens of Queensland can catch cane toads and bring these poisonous amphibians that are rather toxic to a special destination. All live frogs are painlessly killed and turned into compost, which is used by the cane farmers.

While some people have a tough time with the catching huge toads, others try to protect these frogs from a roundup.