Talk:Metrication in Australia

message: This article needs some serious cleanup. For example, the paragraph about bolts is not specific to Australia, and should not be included. Captain Jackson 16:47, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Clean up

message: Can someone explain what does currency have to do with metric system? Metric system ISOs (ISO-31, ISO-1000 and ISO-80000) are not recommendations of currency system, don't even mention that possibility. In fact, attempts to apply metric system rules to currency (k$?) would break the rules of metric system usage.
:Nothing. Jɪmp 00:04, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, decimalising the currency, if not already done, is done before weights and measures.  This is to get people to get used to the new numbers and ideas.  Money is indeed part of a nation's measurement system, even if it is not part of metrics.  In any case, metrics is much more than SI ir ISO.  Wendy.krieger (talk) 09:21, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, part of the national measurement system it may be but it's not part of the metric system.  Interesting point though, that decimalising of the currency gets people used to the decimal nature of the metric system.  Of course, this point would need to be referenced before adding (back) to the article.  JIMp talk·cont 02:47, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: £ & $

message: In come the dollars, in come the cents,
to replace the pounds and the shillings and the pence...
I always thought that it was two replace the pounds and shillings and the pence --TrogWoolley 15:08, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The conversion song 

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replies: text: Rationale provided Alex Sims (talk) 06:38, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
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message: One dot point about steel pipes had a reference that did not support the point being made. Therefore I removed the dot point, especially as this reference <http://www.steelpipes.com.au/products.html> suggested that usage is totally metric. Michael Glass (talk) 11:57, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dot point removal 

message: "Australia's largely successful transition to the metric system contrasts with the ongoing opposition to metrication in the United States, the United Kingdom, and to a lesser extent Canada."
Admittedly, metrication is almost fully complete in Australia while in the UK road distances, beer, and milk are still presented in imperial units; along with the height and weight of persons especially when dealing with the over 40s.
But pretty much everything else in the UK is metric.  The UK's "metric martyr" opposition is more to the attempt to prevent the use of imperial units rather than opposition to the adoption of metric units.
Metrication in the UK isn't opposed in anything like the same way as in the USA, where so-called "English" "customary units" still dominate.  Speaking as a UK mid-40s ex maths/science teacher, I know the younger generation in the UK mostly cannot think in units other than metric (except for miles and pints).
Science and engineering are done exclusively in metric in the UK (except where old - pre 1970s - instrumentation is still in use; particularly pressure gauges), and almost all weights and measures are presented in metric.  The UK uses metric paper sizes, metric fuel dispensing, metric weights and measures for almost all business and official purposes - the most notable exception is where miles (and subdivisions) are still used for distances.  Even that's severely anomalous: the re-triangulation of the UK's mapping which started in the 1930s was done in metric.
So: perhaps the comment I'm singling out could be changed?  I suspect the UK's reluctance to go fully metric is closer to the Canadian situation than the US situation.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.157.175.237 (talk) 19:12, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the only problem with the statement about ongoing opposition to metrication is that it isn't referenced. As to opposition to metrication in Britain, one only has to look at the British Weights and Measures Association [] . For America, the opposition to using metrics is patently obvious. Michael Glass (talk) 22:56, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually there are links to the relevant Wikipedia articles in the text. The blue text takes you to articles on metrication in the countries highlighted. Michael Glass (talk) 00:27, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remark about UK metrication 

message: Says the article
In some cases metrication was achieved by changing rounded Imperial values to rounded metric values, as with horse racing (the old furlong is very close to 200 metres) or the size of beer glasses (rounded to the nearest 5mL).
I'd call "achieved" too strong a word here.  We clung to the old measures, messed them up a bit and put new labels on them.  The midi and pint were rounded up but the ounce was rounded up more (and renamed a nip) so there now are 19 ounces (nips) to the pint and  to the midi.  The schooner was rounded down from 15 imperial ounces to  nips so four schooners are now a little short of three pints. They ought to have either just rounded the ounce to 30 ml and everything else accordingly (i.e. keep the ratios intact, which was good enough for milk) or scraped the whole thing entirely (as with bottles and cans).
What was achieved is what I like to call "mismetrication", Vegimite comes in 910-gram jars (not 1-kilogram) that's just two pounds in disguise (but they are owned by Americans, ay). JIMp talk·cont 03:19, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Metrication achieved by rounding imperial values 

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message: The first sentence of the lead mentions currency decimalisation.  Although related in that they are both decimal systems, the Australian dollar is not part of the metric system.  SI does not include monetary units and other decimal-based systems, such as bytes (when used in the context of hard disk size), are also not part of the SI, despite using metric prefixes.  I think this statement should be removed. Wcp07 (talk) 05:53, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Currency 

message: It should be mentioned that cricket TV commentary appears to be largely in imperial ("the ball's missed the bat by a good couple of inches", "the ball's landed about 3 feet away from him", "they're standing some 20 yards from the pitch" etc.).  This is something of an anomaly because commentators of Australia's other major sports - AFL, rugby leauge and rugby union - all now use metric units.  I assume this is the case because measurements and dimensions in cricket, unlike the other mentioned sports, continue to be specified officially in imperial units.  It would be good to add this to the list of exceptions, however I am unsure if a reliable source for this exists. Wcp07 (talk) 06:10, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cricket commentary