Today is Australia Day here Tribe.
Make sure you wash-and-wax up that fire-engine red Holden, wear your green-and-gold, and break out all those old INXS, Midnight Oil, and Men at Work discs - or go with Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs if you want to go truly old school!
This is a wonderful country, full Big Personalities (Pat Cash), delightfully down-to-earth icons (Evonne Goolagong), Hotties of either sex (Pat Rafter and Alicia Molik) and first-rate Wombats (Lleyton Hewitt).
Have a moment of silence for the Anzacs who gave their lives at Gallipoli, and the fallen Diggers.
Then have a beer, because they're probably want you to. Mourn the fate of the Aborigines, for no great stories are entirely sweet and painless ones. I want to especially thank our Aussie contributors, including TW's Sydney bureau chief, droll Lucy, and our head correspondent from Adelaide, Annabelle (I think she's from Brisbane [sorry for the earlier error, Annabelle!], but she's probably out surfing anyway), and don't forget Aussie-in-exile Lleytsie-fan. The Tribe will appreciate any Australia Day battlefield reports you may care to file. Rock on, dudes and dudettes!