Australia in foreigners’ eyes
Australia is just one big red desert. Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra,Hobart, Darwin, Adelaide, Brisbane - and also pretty much every city in Australia - doesn't have "a big red desert" going through the middle of it. Okay, Darwin does a little bit. So this stereotype is not true. All Australians live by the beach. All Australians don’t live by the beach and go surfing at 11 AM on a Monday morning. Going to the beach is indeed a luxury and an activity to be done on a holiday or a free weekend that people find difficult to arrange because of demanding work schedules. Stereotypes certainly have some truth or history to it, but globalisation and development of cities have hazed these features over time.