[poindexters brother]

Why do all the elites want to have villas in the south of France rather than Tasmania?... You know there is a lot of warm ocean to swim in around Australia.

As my Australian friends told me:

"Everything in Australia bites - and it's poisonous."

An exageration to be sure, but actually not that far off!

As far as swimming in the ocean, witness the Blue-ringed octupus:

http://www.didyouknow.cd/animals/octopus.htm

[Fair Go]

It never ceases to amaze how people swallow the line that everything bites in Australia. Perhaps, they have swallowed too many Aussie tall stories.