This book is an attempt to provide all the information anbody could need to determine what it means to be a resident of Australia, what our national values might be and whether there is an average way of living here. You can tell a lot about a nation by the way it shops, talks, eats, laughs and entertains itself. That's the kind of detail you'll find in this book - our favourite movies, our political passions, our most popular products, our world records, our changing language... There's a bit of history here but this is mainly about the way we are in the first decade of the 21st century (the author).