Most Australian families go away and spend their holidays in a resort or on the beach. Swimming is always popular. Unlike in New York, people walk around in shorts and T-shirts and still get sweltering hot. Everyone invites their friends and grandparents over for salad with cold meats, or a picnic, or even a barbecue.
Nobody has anything like a roast dinner or a turkey.
When kids wake up in the morning, they hurriedly toss off their sheet and race towards the plastic Christmas tree. The presents are piled up under it. When the time comes to open the presents the kids tear off the paper. When all of this is over they go outside and have a game of Cricket or go to the beach for a swim. In poorer areas of Australia, kids expect two or three presents but some get many.