Swedes In Australia

05/11/2020

https://www.swedenabroad.se/en/embassies/australia-canberra/current-affairs/news/the-embassys-phone-lines-are-currently-down/

The Embassy can be contacted on tel +61 (0) 403 765 418 during our opening hours;Monday - Thursday 09.00-12.00 and 14.00-16.00Friday 09.00-12.00 and 14.00-15.00 

28/01/2017

Happy Straya Day everyone! These guys would be welcome to come visit Sweden anytime (nice catch of the beer afterwards).

10/01/2017

Är du en svensk Australien-vän? Träffa andra medlemmar i vår nya Facebook-grupp!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/svenskariaustralien/

24/08/2016

# New Australian Ambassador to Sweden Announced
We are happy to welcome Mr Jonathan Kenna as Australia's next Ambassador to Sweden, and thank the outgoing ambassador, Mr Gerald Thomson, for his great work bringing Sweden and Australia ever closer together since 2013.

http://foreignminister.gov.au/releases/Pages/2016/jb_mr_160824.aspx

24/05/2016

Playing around with MapFrappe - a pretty cool Google Maps service - allows one to overlay different parts of the world for size comparisons. Very useful if you're an expat Swede with only a rough idea of how large Australia is.

For all you Swedes visiting Sydney; here is first greater Sydney outlined in purple, and then that outline is overlaid on top of Stockholm, Malmö/Copenhagen, and Gothenburg.

For comparison, the population of the cities + satellite towns are:
* Greater Sydney: circa 5 million;
* Greater Stockholm: circa 2.2 million;
* Greater Copenhagen and Skåne: circa 3.9 million;
* Greater Gothenburg: circa 1 million.

http://mapfrappe.com/

16/05/2016

So; in case you missed this weekend's Eurovision Final, the highlights were:

1: The Swedish jury and public gave Australia their highest score in the voting (just like last year). Straya; 12 points!
2: Dami kicked ass and pretty much locked in Australia now being a permanent fixture in the contest.
3: This interval act might have been the most gloriously over-the-top song of the whole evening...

https://youtu.be/aMgW54HBOS0?t=1m17s

Måns Zelmerlöw and Petra Mede find out how to create the perfect Eurovision Song Contest songs

12/05/2016

IT’S official: Our favourite European country, Australia, is through to the Eurovision Grand Final. For the next week, we are no longer Swedes in Australia, but Strayans taking over Sweden. Bring the pain to those dirty good-for-nothing Swedes, Dami! .

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/damis-through-to-eurovision-grand-final/news-story/2973853f8ff07d807fbe8c50bc2babbb

IT’S official: Everybody’s favourite European country, Australia, is through to the Eurovision Grand Final.

03/05/2016

Some useful tips as we gear up for Eurovision. For those of you not quite fluent in Swedish; here are the Swedish idioms they're referring to:

* To beat around the bush = Att gå som katten runt het gröt
* No worries = Ingen ko på isen
* They're wasted = De är på kanelen
* To seek revenge = Att ge igen för gammal ost
* You have a skeleton in your closet = Du har inte rent mjöl i påsen
* There's something fishy going on here! = Här ligger en hund begravd!
* You're raging mad! = Du är skogstokig!

(And if you use these old-style idioms in actual conversation, most Swedes born 1950 and later will think that you've taken dad-joking to the next level.)

23/04/2016

"From Swedish backpacker to Australian hero".

Swedish backpacker Robin Lassinniemi is the man of the moment after saving the victim of a coward's punch from being killed by the train. What a legend. Wherever you are, Robin, we hope people are coming up shouting you beers all night.

A Swedish backpacker has been identified as the Good Samaritan who dragged an injured young man from rail tracks, minutes before a train arrived.

11/04/2016

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