My motivation for creating this page is the incessant stupid looks that I get from individuals of other countries that have no idea about geography. Hopefully this will serve some purpose for others sharing the same problem.

• Australia is not a small little island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It is a landmass with an area of 7.6 x 10⁶ km³. For you non-mathematical types, that's 7.6 million square kilometres. About the same size as the US, or most of Europe.
• We have a population of over 20 million people. 20,352,796 at the time of writing this. Do not tell me you "have a friend in Sydney, you might know him/her.." - we don't just live next door to each other. Melbourne is roughly 900km from Sydney. It takes a fucking long time to drive that, and we don't intimately know the entire 5 million population of Sydney, even though we are 'just a little island'.
• Most people are good enough to give their location as Town, State/Region, Country. Others, however, give their location as Bumfuck, XY. Or Blahdiblah, Someregion. Don't give us your location without any indication whatsoever as to country, then give us blank looks when we shoot back 'Wallan, Victoria'. Or 'Redfern, NSW'. We might know where you are, but, please - a bit of courtesy. Don't expect everyone to know the geography of your country, and not give others the same courtesy.
• Don't go around asking 'Is anyone from 'Xyz, AA' in a non-country-specific channel, then expect everyone to pipe up saying yes or no. Most of us don't even know where the hell Xyz is, and it's a bit crazy to expect a group of people (semi-)randomly self-selected from the world's 6 billion population, to have another person from your local area. Sure, ask - but don't expect everyone to say yes, or to know where you're on about.
• English may not be your first language. That's all well and good - you're making an effort to speak in our first language; we'll make an effort to speak in yours. That's a hell of a lot more than I can say about many a person who has English as their first language, and can't understand proper grammar. Shame on them. Oh, and as an adjunct to this, spelling phonetically is wrong. You do not spell 'you' as 'u'; SMS shorthand is unacceptable.