remember the strayan cultural cringe of the 60s & 70s? the obsessive demand of reporters at airports five seconds after some "celeb" arrives for them to answer "so how do you like straya?" then the cringeworthy ads from TA thru the 80s n 90s?

i note, & enjoy, the stark contrast now when it's commonplace for OS papers, magazines, news-sites, blogs et al, to simply mention in some story "today in brisbane..." & "happening this month in adelaide..." & "sydney's blah blah blah" & "is tassie rool?" [just kidding!] etc, without ever anymore needing to geographically contextualise.

hey, wait...

🤔️

oh, maybe that's not actually welcome progress after all...

can we pul-ease go back to anonymity?

#straya