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Celebrity Sightings at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards

By Souleo

Celebrities came out in support of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards.  The annual awards ceremony was held at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre.

When we first saw this picture of rising actress Miao Pu we didn’t know what to think.  From afar she looks like Big Bird and up close, yup, still Big Bird.  Thanks to “Sesame Street” big, fluffy, pretty yellow dresses are cursed foreverrrrrrrr!

CNN Presenter Myleene Klass was there and she looked quite boring.  Okay, well not boring but we miss the days when she would stroll around in bikinis on “I’m a Celebrity…Get Me out of Here.”  Forget class, someone needs to put this woman back on a trashy reality show and let her cavort around half naked!

Anna Bligh, QLD Premier was also on the scene as she posed with screen legend Jack Thompson.  Earlier in her career Anna used to protest against Playboy Magazine.  I wonder if hanging out Jack-the first nude male centerfold for Cleo Magazine back in 1972-has made her loosen up a bit.  Lord we hope so!

Speaking of Jack, at 68 years old he is looking pretty good and we think it’s time for him to pose nude once more.

Unfortunately the magazine doesn’t show any frontal nudity but a little bit of Jack just may go a long way (wink-wink).

But really, isn’t it time for an old man to publicly embrace his body and sexuality?  If Sophia Loren can still sex it up at 74, then perhaps Jack can get away with revealing a little crack.

Take A Nice Broadbeach Dinner

By: The OZtralia Producers

We have spent our fair share of time in Broadbeach. It is really nice to go out to dinner here if you are staying on the Gold Coast. How do we say this politely? It is a bit more “upper class” than Surfers Paradise.Broadbeach is becoming famous for its high rise apartment buildings. Also, if you are looking to shop, check out Pacific Fair which is also the transportation center for the Gold Coast.Also in Broadbeach you will find the ever so famous Conrad Jupiters Casino, and the Gold Coast Convention Center which brings in a lot of neat events to the Gold Coast.

Australia’s Top Private University in Video

By: The OZtralia.tv Producers

Bond University is universally known as Australia’s top private university in Australia. Unique in its teaching style and structure, Bond has a trimester schedule keeping students on campus virtually year round. Throughout the year, hundreds of study abroad students call Bond home. Bond’s trimester schedule coincides with college timetables in the United States and Europe.

Founded in 1987, Bond is a very new University and the well fished grounds and facilities prove that point. Founded in 1987 by Alan Bond, the University is situated in Robina (sometimes referred to as Varsity Lakes) on Australia’s Gold Coast.

In 2008, Forbes Magazine rated Bond as “one of the most expensive universities in the world,” but we here at OZtralia.tv feel you get what you pay for with this place. Our President and Publisher graduated from Bond and he tells us that it was an amazing experience.

Giving You The Best Australian Travel Experience

By: OZtralia.tv Staff

We are proud to continue to give you the best travel experience for Australia online.

From our video map, you can see all of Australia. But now, from our direct pages, we also give you a wealth of written information on every location we cover in Australia.

Below are links so you can check it all out yourself.

Watch videos and find information about
all the amazing Australia’s travel destinations:

» Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree Rainforest
» Sunshine Coast - Noosa
» Brisbane
» Canberra
» Melbourne
» Byron Bay and the Rainbow Valley
» Sydney
» Whitsunday-Overview
» Rainbow Valley
» Hobart and Southern Tasmania
» Northern Tasmania
» Perth and the Sunset Coast
» Cairns and Port Douglas
» Surfer’s Paradise and the Gold Coast
» Uluru
» The Great Ocean Road

They call “college” here “Uni.” At first, I did not get it. Soon, I was fast enough to derive the conclusion. School does not start for a couple more weeks. Next week is “0″ week followed by week one. During 0 week, we have get-to-know-ya games and the like. I am going on a surfing adventure that the college offers and a wet and wild adventure.

The Australians are a nice bunch. I live about 10 minutes, by car, away from Surfer’s Paradise. Do I have a car? No, but I have bicycle! A jolly ride on a bike to Surfer’s is over an hour.

If I receive nothing else from my time in Australia, it is respect for bicyclists. A friend in New York was the one to propose the idea to buy a bike. “Gunnar, you should really get a bike and explore,” he said.

I remember in Idaho, mother and I would be driving the van in some place like Lewiston, and I would poke fun at the bicyclists peddling their heart out alongside the road. I would try to sing the instrumental part of the Wizard of Oz hit, when the witch is riding her bicycle. “Dundantan dundantun da dun, Dundantan dundantun da dun, Dundantan dundantun da dun…”

Now, I am the proud owner of a bike. “One, and two, and three, and four,” I count to myself as I trudge up a hill. It is always best to have rhythm, right? “One, and two, and three, and four” and then some person thinks they are a barrel of laughs and passes me going 120 kph on their motor bike, and I am left to watch them cruise up the hill. Still, there is no better feeling of accomplishment than when I pass over the crest and am greeted with a cool breeze.

One could really get himself hurt here riding a bike. They have things called “roundabouts.” We have them back in the states, but they are few and far between. Here, you cannot go more than a half mile before coming to a darn roundabout. Riding a bike through a roundabout is hard.

Traffic is coming and going, and then horns honk because you are in the way…but I have managed to get the horn honking down to a minimum as I figure the system out.

It is very interesting to be watching the news in the U.S. right now. It makes me feel proud to be from there, but also very dismayed. Namely, the talk of gas prices gets me. Sure gas prices are bad back home, but here they are a lot worse, equivalent to over four dollars a gallon. Australians just go with the flow and are not complaining about prices too much, because gas here has always been expensive.

Maybe if they got rid of some of the roundabouts though, they could save on gas, as a straight line is the fastest way to any given destination, but that is not the point.