1. We look up, of course, but the direction we're looking when we look "up" is the opposite to the direction you northerners are looking. I haven't seen the Big Dipper, Polaris or Cassiopeia since I visited Canada in '83 - they're all always below the horizon from here.
2. I haven't tried since primary school. I kind of learned the knack, but I'd have to re-learn it to give a demo these days.
3. I appear to be lacking sufficient social context to answer that question. I used to play the trumpet when I was younger, so I can make a passable noise on a didgeridoo since the mouth action is similar, but I never learned the aboriginal technique of breathing in through your nose and out through your mouth simultaneously, which you need to have in order to play the didgeridoo properly.
4. Very little corn is grown in Australia - it's mostly wheat and sorghum. Corn need too much irrigation for Australia's arid conditions. As for UFOs, the Min Min Lights in northern Queensland are Australia's most famous aerial apparitions. They don't leave circles behind, but they scare motorists. Scientists say they think they're headlights bouncing off of a peculiar atmospheric inversion layer. Witnesses reckon if that's the case, it's the freakiest inversion layer they've ever seen. Personally, I think perhaps they've all had too much XXXX (see answer 8 ).
5. "To waltz your matilda" is an old Australian slang phrase meaning "to travel around from place to place with all your belongings, seeking work". The "matilda" is another nickname for the swag, or sack used to carry one's belongings.
6. "Australia" is derived from the Latin word for "south", australis. Early European mapmakers filled in the blank space on their maps in the southern hemisphere with a mythical southern supercontinent, and gave it verbosely long names like "Terra Australis Sanctus Spiritus" - Great South Land of the Holy Spirit - just to fill up all the blank space. Later Dutch explorers discovered and named the western half New Holland; British explorers named the eastern half New South Wales. It was British explorer Matthew Flinders, the first person to circumnavigate it, who first suggested the name "Australia" for the island as a whole.
7. So I'm told. I'm a fifth-generation teetotaler myself. From my observations, there are other countries that have just as ubiquitous a beer-drinking culture - Germany, for instance.
8. What's a Fosters? Here in Queensland they all seem to drink XXXX (that's pronounced "fourex"), a beverage that's apparently less popular south of the border. Non-Queenslanders like to tell this joke: Why do Queenslanders call their beer "XXXX"? Because they don't know how to spell "beer".
9. Again I speak from tee-totalling ignorance, but it's my understanding that "whiskey" is a drink for strange foreign folks. Aussies (and especially Queenslanders) that want something stronger than XXXX usually imbibe Bundaberg Rum ("Bundy").
10. Ned Kelly's armour (well, most of it) currently resides in the State Library of Victoria, which has it on display. The four members of the Kelly Gang all had suits of armour made for themselves, and the disassembled pieces seem to have gotten mixed up while in storage. The Victorian Police still hold most of the pieces from two of the other suits, while the fourth is owned by the descendants of Victoria's Police Commissioner at the time of Kelly's arrest. Ned Kelly's armour is protected by a special statute in the National Cultural Heritage Control List - it can never leave Australia's shores, under any circumstances.
