Happy New Year 2012

Today at the last day in 2011 at Silvester I wish you all a nice end of 2011 and a nice start of 2012. At 13:00 UTC Sydney will celebrate the New Year at the great Harbour Bridge. Several TV stations around the globe will transmit this event. In Europe the british Sky News will broadcast in the free TV via cable providers and via satellite e.g. 19,2°East and 28,2°East.

Happy New Year 2012 :-)

Merry Christmas 2011

Today at Christmas Eve I wish all of you happy and reflective Christmas. Far away here in Europe, in Germany, in Wuppertal we will not get some snow to celebrate "white" Christmas. But at the other side of our planet in Australia the people will get no snow, too. In Sydney people will celebrate in the sun, having temperatures about 23°C and 27°C.

Merry Christmas! :-)

Daylight Saving Time ends in USA and Canada at November the 6th

Our international users in North America maybe interested in the end of the Daylight Saving Time for this year at November 6th. The time difference to UTC will be back to -5 hours. In fact the difference of the EST (Eastern Standard Time, e.g. New York) of the USA to the EDT (Eastern Daylight Time, e.g. Sydney) of Australia will be 16 hours starting at 11/06/2011.

Please keep this in mind if you like watching the Hyundai A-League in Australia live on TV or via Internet Livestream.

Soccer - Start of the A-League at 08.10.2011

At the 8th of October 2011 the new season of the A-League will start in Australia. The professional Australian soccer league did not start in August this year due to the final matches of the AFL and NRL. An overview of all soccer clubs participating this year, the results and the timetable you can find here in our Wiki. To discuss and vote for your favourite winner you can visit our Forum.

More information:

• Main article of the A-League in the Wiki
• Tables of results in the Wiki
• Timetable in the Wiki
• A-League 2011/12 in the Forum

Oldest fossil maybe found in Australia

In Western Australia near Port Hedland maybe the worlds oldest fossil was found. It could be assumed that there was life at Earth about 3.4 billion years ago. This life was in form of bacteria.

This scientific very important discovery was told by the paleontologist Martin Brasier of the Oxford University. The researches were done in cooperation with the University of Western Australia.

More information about this topic:

• To discuss in our Australia Forum.
• World's oldest fossils found in the Pilbara

TV - 26.08.2011 - arte - Aborigines and Citizens

Special note about a TV broadcast:
Friday 26.08.2011 / 11:20 a.m. CET until 12:15 p.m. CET about Aborigines and Citizens (Aborigines und Bürger / Aborigenes et citoyens) at TV Channel arte.

This documentation of Rachel Perkins and Beck Cole show the political activist Eddie Koiki Mabo and the history in point of view of the Indigenous People.

You can receive this television broadcast in German and French language within Europe and Africa via satellite and cable providers.

For detailed information and discussion about this broadcast visit our forum-topic:
TV - 26.08.2011 - arte - Aborigines and Citizens

New Server

During the night of the 13th to the 14th of August our Website "The Experience Australia" moved to a new and more powerful Webserver. We tried to minimise the outage. All parts like the Wiki, the Gallery and the Forum were affected.

Special thanks for all the help to make this migration possible!

Grand opening of the Australia-Blog in English

Herewith I open the Australia-Blog in English language. After more than one year after the German version we now introduce the Australia-Blog for our international guests.

This English speaking news-system is part of my website The Experience Australia I opened in 1996.