Why not advertise also on the Diplomacy Association of Australia and New Zealand (DAANZ) web site for players, they just came out with their latest 'zine issue:

http://daanz.org.au/daanz/DAANZ%20News%202008_12.pdf

Why just for aussies? I am a Queenslander so I think I qualify.

I am an Aussie and I would play but I too busy, but another time I would love to play an Aussie game. The advantage that I can see is that you would all be in the same timezone.

Well pretty much the same time zone. I just wanted to get Aussies together, to see if we play any differently and for novelty sake

racism

I didn't realise Australian was a race :p

How is one playing one game with people from your own country racsim? Sorry lazysummer I know you don't like me replying to you posts, but when you insist upon making stupid comments like that I can't resist.

it was a joke spyman.
you're a little slow, it's okay.

A game exclusively for Australians, eh? Yeap nothing wrong with keeping people out based on nationality. Yeah, that's perfectly fine. I bet you just swiped a few pages out of Mein Kampf for that idea. You guys have some fascist fun. :P

An Australian is a race. Just like American.

I am a Tasmanian, I would like an interstate type Diplomacy, see if the people who actually wrote the constitution can match if with mainland players.

New South Wales here- Sydney

Leon- grow a brain- its more than likely so it can be a speed game i would imagine.

Australian is NOT a race.
Caucasian, Asian, Negro, etc are all races, Australian is like an American, an ETHNIC or Cultural group- look up Race in the dictionary...
Also as for Tasmanians...well..(insert 2 headed Tassie joke here).
lol...
how many players from Oz are there atm?

You got that time lazysummer ;)

lol;)

it was a joke spyman.
you're a little slow, it's okay.

It's called a joke Daniel-san. By the way, nice use of an English name and a Japanese suffix. Bet it took you a long time to come up with that one.

yeah bit like yours mate- Eastern European and wtf is rey?

As you already said, lazysummer, it was a joke. Took me a while but I get it.

Alright I've created a game for Australians to join and play each other:

http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=7659

Please don't upset the apple cart and join despite not being from Australia. I enjoy playing anyone, but I just want to try this out for novelty sake.

I'm an Australian citizen so I can join.

And I have to dispute those saying Australian is a race or ethnicity. It is a nationality.

It can't be an ethnicity when it is made up of so many ethnicities:

Australian (37.1%)
English (31.6%)
Irish (9.1%)
Scottish (7.7%)
Italian (4.3%)
German (4.1%)
Chinese (3.4%)
Greek (1.8%)
Dutch (1.6%)
Indian (1.2%)
Lebanese (1.0%)
Poles (0.8%)
Vietnamese (0.8%)

I'm in.

@Leon-Rey: Ever see The Karate Kid?

Wax on wax off Daniel-San.

lol- so what are those that are Australian?
Aboriginal? they are the true Australian- and sadly President Pericles, you neglected them in your count- obviously not an Aussie

@ Philcore, indeed mate;)

That list was based on self-reporting.

I didn't neglect indiginous Australians as I didn't create those numbers, take it up with the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

I assume "Australian" would be made up mostly of Anglo-Celtic Australians who no longer identify with their ancestral origins, but I cannot be sure as I did not perform the survey.

I am Australian, and I don't know how you can conclude that I am not. You seem to just want to be a contrarian.

I'm an immigrant but I have Australian citizenship, pay taxes & vote, so I'd consider myself eligible for this game ;-)

I think being a contributing part of society and being ready to defend the country is just as important as where your ancestors are from, if it was any other way we'd all be african anyway

Hear hear Kestasjk. Part of Australia's greatness is its ability to contain cultural diversity AND a sense of shared civic pride. Let's leave the discussion on that thought

The austrian opening in that game is very australian.

Haha.

Who knows, maybe he'll do a Steven Bradbury: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=lfQMJtilOGg