australia

Party Aussie style at the Shepherds Bush Walkabout all day.

Three London-based Queensland ladies have organised a fundraising event this Friday to be hosted at Mahiki.

You can take Londonist out of London, but you can never take London out of Londonist. Even when we’re in foreign climes our eyes are peeled for Londony things to excite and delight us, so imagine our thrill on looking at a rail map of …

Image courtesy of the Barbican In 1984 a group of Australian musicians came to London to try their luck. By January 1985 they were on the cover of NME, which predicted it would be the “Year of The Triffids.” During their stint in the UK, …

Image from the film The Balibo Conspiracy, courtesy of LAFF Mention ‘Australian Film’ and a few stereotypes might spring to mind: Paul Hogan; quirky comedies; horror and gloom; or for those still living in the 19th century, bloodthirsty convicts. This year marks the 16th London …

In search of London’s best sandwich since sliced bread Having Haddin-uff of Cook-ing for ourselves and eating nothing but straightforward sandwiches, we decided to celebrate England’s victory over Australia in the Ashes by Broad-ening our horizons and having a bash at a burger instead, rather …

For those unable to get a ticket for The Oval, it was the next best thing: the crowds descended upon Regent’s Park on Saturday to watch the tail end of the final Ashes series of 2009 on a giant video screen. A sense of optimism …

Image via GothPhil’s Flickrstream under a CC licence Muswell Hill’s new favourite son may have lost himself in the hills on the outskirts of Sydney, but he certainly found fame and fortune. He has signed an exclusive media deal with an Australian PR firm for …

Good news to wake up to! So often missing person stories miss a happy ending but Muswell Hillian Jamie Neale was found alive and surprisingly well in hills way more brutal than that of his hometown. 19 year old Jamie had been lost in Australia’s …

View from Lord’s media centre by the payne The first Ashes test begins today, but what with television rights to the series now gobbled up entirely by Sky, those without a subscription to Murdoch’s empire are sh*t out of luck when it comes to watching …