The "Free Trade Agreeement" between Aust & US is known here as 'The F*** The Aussies' con job...

"when people move from place to place, they bring parts of their culture with them. [snip] it is quite natural that they would want to bring the good aspects of what they left behind with them."

That's how Australia has become the Gourmet delight of the world - we got so many different cultural based food systems!

Went across the the park yesterday to the local 'multicultural festival' - such events are becoming very common in Australia now.

Snacked on a range of Indian/Thai/Dutch/French/German/Italian/Spanish/ ... (lost track) nibblies... (and there was no Sushi either!) Yum! Would I want to go back to the stodgy 'Traditional Aussie Food' of my youth (basically the worst of 'English Cusine')?

No way!