Have you got plans for Australia Day yet? The iconic day of sun, sausages and Smirnoff is one of the most alcoholic holidays of the year, surpassing Valentine’s Day and even New Years (probably..). If you’re not hitting up Big Day Out, Ivy or Greenwood for Australia Day celebrations, well good, I’ll tell you what you should be doing.
Australia Day is a day of community, friendship and ‘Goon of Fortune’ on your best friend’s clothes line. It’s a day of boys on the barbeque and girls lazing around in the pool. It’s a day of King’s Cup, Beer Pong and Flip, Sip or Strip.
So on Australia Day, don’t go to a club or bar; go to a mate’s house that has a pool with your giant pool toys, a case of beer and a bottle of whatever you’re going to shot. You should be wearing thongs with an appropriate Australia Day outfit; that means swimmers, anything with an Aussie flag, coloured zinc and fake Southern Cross tattoos (note: fake, not real).
Drinking should start before midday and not stop until you can’t go anymore and pass out on the lawn somewhere. Everyone should participate drinking games and take at least one shot. Celebrations should be spent outside in the sun and stay there until the stars come out so you can go for a midnight swim with that person you’re not supposed to be kissing with illegal fireworks crackling above you.
Skip the public events and make a day of it with your mates and the ability to not get kicked out of the event (hopefully). If you wake up on the 27th of January in a bed and you can remember the night before, you’ve done Australia Day wrong!
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