G'day bbc,

I knew it was pretty close, but when I saw that song I thought of all the worries visiting tourists have about Australian wildlife being a tad too wild. (Liam's Brother mentioned a nature doco from which he had learnt that " ... of the world's 10 deadliest snakes ... 10 of them live in Australia"!) The bloke who wrote this one obviously decided to get a bit of mileage out of that sort of fear.

" ... a feasible Australian game or sport to play with 10-12 year olds ..." Hmm .... ! You are certainly not going to teach them cricket in the intervening week (OK, it IS an English game, but we pride ourselves on how often we beat them at their own game!). I'm not sure there is any game that is exclusively Australian. We are pretty mad about football (3 English codes: Soccer, Rugby Union and Rugby League ... as well as our own Australian Rules), surfing and a variety of outdoor pursuits ... but these are all pretty universal.

Maybe some Aussie in the teaching or phys. ed. line will have some bright idea ... but it is next week!

Regards,

Bob Bolton