There are many things Aussies love about being, well, Aussie. The first things that come to mind are beaches, cricket, snags on the barbie, and of course a nice cold beer. While we do love all of the above, when the Herald Sun conducted a survey to see people's top three favourite things about being Australian, the most common word from 15,000 responses was 'freedom'.

The ususal suspects were also on the list, but it's nice to see that our bogan stereotype aside, what we value most is the important stuff that is too easy to take for granted. Here's a clever word-cloud they made up with the top ranswers.

I hope you all had a great Australia Day celebrating with friends and family - As long as the rain didn't put out the fire in your bbq, then you were doing alright. Ill leave you with two videos for your enjoyment. The first is Tourism Australia's great ad showing why people should come to our country. As for the second, as it's Light Fridays (and as Aussies we love to take the piss out of ourselves) is a funny video I was sent on why people should NOT come to Australia.

Have a great weekend!