Well Swinburn is here in Melbourne, the closest resort is 3 hours away (Mt. Buller) but the two other resorts in this state are a bit further on but better imo.
If u end up in Queensland you have a long long drive ahead of u for the snow unless u fly and drive from sydney melbourne or canberra...
American Football is boring..... always stopping and nothing seems to really happen except for a few plays for touchdowns.
Only good North American sports are baseball and hockey
Australian Football finals (playoffs) time atm, Grand Final (superbowl for you guys) is next weekend!!!
only a few weeks left in the season here (been awesome for Aussie standards)..... thank God all the movies are dropping now to get me through the upcoming hot summer, plus NS, freeskier and the mini podcast vids!
I only ski in Victoria so i can't really comment on Perisher, but with regards to park here imo it goes:
1. Falls Creek
2. Mt Buller
3. Mt Hotham
best snow is variable since its Australia after all, Falls Creek has excellent snow making but the place to head for a powder day is def Mt...
I was in Niseko, Japan in January 2006 plundering pow when I was browsing a Aussie run snowboard shop I came across an issue of K2 Skeeze, where there was an article by cko and it mentioned newschoolers.com
as I was curious i checked it out, and loved it. before this I was very much a gaper...
Aussie beers: James Squire Pilsner, Coopers Pale Ale, Cascade Premium, Boag's Draught
Asian: Sapporo, Tiger, Asahi Super Dry
Polish: Okocim, Zywiec
Also loved Whistler Lager when I was over there...