Terry,
People characterise themselves, do they not? ;-)
In case you are wondering, Bondi is a magnificent Sydney beach famously frequented by many New Zealanders in the 1980s but more recently featuring as an internationally embarrassing riot zone involving Australian youths of different colours. Sample:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/12/17/wriot17.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/12/17/ixworld.htmlNeedless to say, most Kiwis had already moved to the Gold Coast. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1