Australia: the cuisine, the history, the music, the workshop!

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Tabouli" <tabouli at u...> wrote:

> there is from WW1, when the ANZACs landed at Gallipoli and got 
> annihilated.  In true Australian fashion, we now get a public 
> holiday in memory of this event.  Yes, other countries celebrate 
> glorious military victories,

Back during US/UN military action in Kosovo, the New York Times 
mentioned the Serbian deep emotion attachment to Kosovo Pec (the Field 
of Blackbirds), site of 'a' glorious military defeat in IIRC 1368. 
Molly Ivins (columnist, Texan) wrote a column suggesting that Texans 
might be the only Americans who can understand the Serbs: the above 
citation was written in a tone of mockery that shows that New Yorkers 
and the like think there is something weird about considering a 
defeat to have been glorious; clearly they do not understand how 
Texans feel about the Alamo. 

> OK, so perhaps a bit lacking in foresight on the 
> nervous-international-students-already-terrified-by-the-sinful-
> sexualised-society front, but certainly attention grabbing.  

LOL

> Bound for Botany Bay

In grade school (Los Angeles Unified School District, 1960s), we 
learned to sing Waltzing Matilda and studied a glossary of the words, 
but I think I've never heard of "Bound for Botany Bay". Lyrics? Link?