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Originally Posted by ozkai
It's not celebrated that much in Australia as a religous occassion, but more of a fun occassion and a break from the working year.
Of course, if you have children, the importance becomes more apparant.
New Year is also massive in Australia, and it is a real looked forward to occassion for me with plans already down  |
The reason my country does that is because during the 80s it was under a dictatorship regime, and the dictator never liked religion so he put the importance on New Year's Eve more than Christmas.
However, since the early 90's we changed to a democratic country but it still stood the same way.