Hong Kong Sevens | Aussies carry plenty of baggage

They’re a weird mob, Australians at the Sevens. The Land Down Under has won a World Cup 15s more recently than they’ve won a Hong Kong Sevens. The last victory on this turf was in 1988.

They’re the only country in the world to eat both animals on their coat of arms – poor Skippy and emu. The first Australian word in the Oxford dictionary was "Kangaroo". So who decided to call the rugby team "the Wallabies’’? And their early Hong Kong sevens teams "the Wallaroos"?

It was all downhill from there.

And Australians even put "G’day" in their Macquarie dictionary. It sits right between "Gdansk" (Poland) and "GDP", perhaps showing Australia’s bent for money and multiculturalism.

Multiculturalism wasn’t en vogue at the time Dane Jorn Utzon designed the Sydney Opera House. Sometimes Australians call this amazingly iconic piece of architecture, "the Cleavage".

Last week, it was 100 years ago since the first foundation stone was placed for the formation of Canberra, the nation’s capital, the political capital, and a satellite city that some say should be shot into orbit.