Aye, I was thinking prawns & beer too, maybe a pool party with hot chicks in very little clothing... Get it out in the Isa and we'll see just who is who ("You're not an Aussie till you've been to the Isa" as the classic ad used to say)...

I reckon we get the Rum out too, go for a wander down the river to Sunset, there's real, true blue, dinky die Aussie's down there, who'd teach some here about what is (and is not) Australian (and don't mind a drink or a feed either as it happens)...

Oh I forgot, don't worry about racism down that way... If you are drunk and racist at a p*ss-up in Sunset, you are likely to reconsider awful quick

Yeah, I guess it's hard to be considerate to others when you're a selfish narrow minded twat.

Who says I have to be considerate? I obey the law, I don't burn down buildings, etc. I am entitled to be as pleasant, or otherwise, as is legally permissable (and only when the opposite is proven beyond a reasonable doubt). However, I challenge anyone here to go to Sunset and tell the traditional owners (predominantly Kalkadoon & Lake Nash mobs) and those that live in the area, what is and is not Australian. I've got relatives there and have lived in the area, they aren't racist, they just don't like immigrants. They don't regard shades of white/brown/black as important. Then again, show some respect and it really won't matter who you are or where you come from (don't and I expect you'll regret it).

I suggest you go carefully, stir it up too much and the Police won't go in there until the following morning...

Dream on Custard,

As a bloke who has been damn crook on a feed of prawns in Isa I'm going to say it is too hot, too far away from the ocean and the hygiene is too bloody suss for me to ever recommend them as chow in that town. Plus the reason they drink so much rum there is the beer is so bloody ordinary.

Finally the only hot chicks you will find there are in the chook shed. Thought I might have spotted some talent at rodeo time but most were barely distinguishable from the stock.

Now Broome on the other hand! Lets just say a good mixing of Japanese, Malay, Indonesian, White and Indigenous can produce some real stunners. Plus a pretty fair number of them are talented as well.

Really Aussies there mate, not just east coast mining blowins/blowhards.

Nothing wrong with the Isa, just the fly-in/fly-out w*#*ers. Get in with the locals, learn to cope, learn to enjoy the place. Go down to the Burger King, get something to eat, sit there and listen. You might be surprised to learn the owner (and his son) are Bosnian Moslems (yet the son worked at Doomadgee and was well accepted as Sport & Rec. Officer - also the bloke who leant me his Koran to study). Immigrants who have made an effort are what make Mt Isa - Mt Isa. Immigrants who don't make an effort live in ghetto's in major cities and want Australia to conform with them.