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I think it's the entire sociological-environment that people are brought up in. Australia's beginnings were based on a Penal Colony where the populace then was heavily suppressed and controlled by the authorities. It's something that has carried on to this very day whether one wishes to believe it or not. Conversely, in America, people's own self preservation and governance was established and maintained by the unwritten laws of the old Wild West frontier. Where every man had to be able to protect themselves simply to survive. Again, that mindset continues to this very day. Any such long established environments are NOT easy to change because they are well conditioned into the mindset of the respective population.
I doubt a letter sent to any such party would do anything to alter their fundamental state of being. That can only change in time by the people wanting such change "collectively".
That's right.
On another note... I still can't correlate a dirt or rocky track with a road made from solid steel.
Redlynx,
It is vast, and it's not heavily populated. What some people don't realize is that about 90% of the population lives very near the coast. The main central part of the continent is very dry, which is why people kept to the moister coastal areas since the beginning.
In the outback, I doubt anyone will pull you up on an EDC so long as it's not in clear view when you go into the small towns. Though the same laws apply in a state no matter where you are in it.
Aussies are very welcoming of quality cutlery if it's properly used, especially the country folk where they use it all the time for chopping and slicing.
But there are not that many areas that are highly urbanized if you compare it to the surface area of the land.
And it's not an easy hobby to have here because of the way most people view knives. A few months ago I took a new Spartan Ares that I bought for a mate as a present into a CNC etching/routing mob near where I live to have his name and a couple of other words very accurately and neatly ground into it. Took it in wrapped up in a non see through plastic bag which I placed on the counter in the foyer of the factory. One of the two ladies sitting at the large counter asked me to take it out of the bag for her to have a look at it, and when I did BOTH of them looked like they'd seen a ghost. You wouldn't believe it... it was as if someone told them "the money or your life". LOL
They FREAKED as they fumbled and stuttered their way through telling me it was ok to leave it there and it would be ready for pickup the next day. It was one of the funniest things I've seen in recent times. I said to one of them that it's OK, it's just a knife, to which she looked at me with wide open eyes and a drooping jaw and said, "I can see that". LOL That should give you an idea of what we have to contend with here... we're like "closet" knife collectors, all of us. What can you do...I do it because it's been a lifelong interest of mine. In recent years though, the quality of knives has gone through the roof, both materially and aesthetically. They've come a LONG way in the last 40years.
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