Unfortunately leaving their slobbering mascot at home, 100 American students from the University of Georgia converged on Brisbane for the tour of a life time. The students with backgrounds in biology, photography and psychology to name a few jetted around the city with Aussie guides Alex and Ryan.

The students scared with ghost stories and Brisbane’s Jack the Ripper had them on edge, even when finding out about their own Army General which had such an impression on Brisbane, the US General Douglas MacArthur who ran the Second World War South West Pacific Campaign from Brisbane.

After the tour and on a tight schedule, the students rushed off to Australia Zoo for the afternoon of crocodiles, koalas and kangaroos.

Next heading to the Whitsundays for some beach action a special thanks must go to the group organisers, in particular Bob Matthews for it can’t

The harbour city of the world… SYDNEY!!!

With some of the best sights in the world, Sydney is a must see for anyone in Australia.

But how do you get the most out of a city that has so much to give??

If you’re a bit lost on where to go and what to see or who really to talk too. My Australia Tours can’t recommend any more than a FREE WALKING TOUR.

At the moment Sydney has to offer two companies running Free Tours – Im Free and Peek Tours. Click on their links to check them out.

If you are looking for a tour of Brisbane…

If you are looking for a hilarious day out…

If its bucketing down with rain…

My Australia Tours and the Free Walking Tour will show you a good time. Running in all weather condition and everyday, we’ll see you down at the start point.

Brisbane City Hall @ 11am next to Coffee Hit

Looking for something to do this Saturday night?? Brisbane will be going off with a MASSIVE bang.

Riverfire is back with the last appearance of the F1 11 dump and burn.

Beware of the packed out Southbank and Kangaroo Point areas as half of Brisbane turns out for the event.

Summer is coming and for some of the Europeans out there, its been here all winter. But strap in and stay tuned for the up and coming events from My Australia Tours.

Beach parties headlining all summer with the BEACH PARTY Pub Crawl also soon to be launched!

The best thing about Free Walking Tour’s of any city no matter where you are, its guaranteed to be AWESOME!!!

As Free Walking Tour guides we give you only the best tour of a city, which is why we don’t charge. We know we are SO good that we let you decide what you think its worth. How can you beat that!

Don’t bother with expensive bus tours, skipping the exciting sights with the out of time voice recording going on and on and on about everything boring.

Have your own personal Free Walking Tour guide to take you around showing you only the best spots, asking as many questions as you like. Go places only locals know and can’t be accessed by buses. Free Walking Tours are the way forward!!

My Australia Tours caught up with Alex to find out what he’s been doing outside of being awesome his Australia tours!

“At the moment I’m working on a theatrical piece that my mate Steve and I wrote called 12 Gauge. It’s like a slasher movie on stage!

Two guys are locked in a room whilst a masked killer stalks them … do they survive? The whole idea of the show is to take a horror movie and bring it into one room, so that no matter what you tell yourself the killer could be right behind you!”

Its  sure to be one wicked show not to be missed. If you want to check it out the show will be performed in mid to late July (19^th – 24^th) during the Vena Cava’s Capillaries festival at the Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove Campus.

Alex is VERY excited about it, so check it out!

If only Germany didn’t thump us so hard in our first game we’d be in the second round. But as Aussies we are proud of our boys for giving it to the world in what looked to be one of the hardest pools to be placed in.

It can not be ignored that Australian’s for a long time has never considered soccer to be one of the top key sports with so many different codes played in Australia. But these boys in the last World Cup and this years have shown the world we are on the level of the countries which pay millions for players and live and breath the sport. Give it another 10 or 15 years and Australia we be easily one of the contenders for the World Cup win with such support for the sport in general only building in that time with many players seeing the money, success and Socceroos jersey in their sights!

Well done boys!!

So where in the world did this come from!!

A few things broke out today which has never happened in Australia’s history. Not only did we have a change in the left wing Labor party leader, but it was a change in the Prime Minister as they are currently in government. Secondly, Julia Gillard won the internal party vote against PM Kevin Rudd on who should lead the country and Julia being the first female ever to be sworn in as Austraila’s Prime Minister. Actually, Kevin Rudd backed out without going to the party vote.

So how did this come about? Well going purely from the polls, Kevin Rudd lost so much respect not only from the general public in Australia, but his own Labor supporters that have been Labor voters their entire life were thinking “what is this guy doing”. It was that loss of support in this crucial election year in which why the party decided a change needed to happen to get Australian’s backing again. That change booting out Kevin Rudd and what looks like in a way, stabbing him in the back. So K Rudd is out and Julia is in.

Now what is Julia going to do? I think we’ll have to wait and see if she can gain every Australian’s confidence as she is now Prime Minister and is wanting to hang onto that through the next election. Only time will tell!

One thing is for sure. It was a big surprise for a lot of people and some people feel cheated as K Rudd was voted in as Prime Minister and not Julia. But when we as Australian’s do go to the polls to vote, we don’t vote for the Prime Minister like what the American’s do with their President. We simply vote for the party, in which the party leader at the time wins the Prime Minister role and up until now has always held that position leading into the next election.

Also, has to be mentioned that Australia’s first female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, isn’t even AUSTRALIAN!!!! Our crazy red head PM was born in Wales!! Moved here at the age of 6, so I’m sure we can claim her as our own though.

If there is something you must see in Brisbane right now, that is the Ron Mueck exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art at Southbank Parklands.

Ron basically makes Madame Tussauds a waste of money, through creating some really funky art. He casts life like people out of wax with amazing skill, however changes the size. The way in which he can attach hair and recreate these ‘people’ in such a life like manner, was breath taking.

Below I’ve taken some photos of my adventure with a newly born baby the size of a car and a 2 foot tall man sitting in a boat. The over size hanging chicken was a little strange. If we are ever able to actually genetically change a chicken to that size, I sure hope I’m not around.

My travels around the world have taken me to some of the best art made. They list from

I put Ron right up there with some awesome sights. I’ll leave you up to decide on what you think of this exhibition, but I highly recommend saying hi to Ron and his friends at the Gallery of Modern Art.

Both art gallery’s and museum in Brisbane are free, however this exhibition will set you back $12 for adults and $9 for students.

p.s. the huge bunny is just a blow up… not one of Rons…and see if you can spot the chicken dancers?