There are also many cultural and regional differences between people in different areas of Australia. Australians and Canadians understand geographic greatness. They both understand that it takes a plane to get from one side of the country to the other and they understand regional and cultural separation. She says the similarity to Canada is more than geographic. Australians have the same sense of distance and regional dissociation.
Western ranchers hate the fact that the decisions are made in the east.
Despite these regional differences, a few general descriptions of Australians are common. The Tall Poppy Syndrome Australians are generally informal people and they hate pretentiousness and snobbery. Some people speculate that this originated from the country's history as a penal colony since early settlers were outsiders to the English social system. Marissen describes it like this. Tall poppies' are over-achievers.