Greatest Aussie Inventions.

God may have created the world, but it took Aussie ingenuity to make it worth living in.

Australian Rules Football
Just take eight sticks, an oval, a ball, and 36 blokes to belt each other. We reckon the rest of the world doesn’t play it is because they know that we’d win. Or it’s the shorts.

Mad Monday
This semi-sanctioned stupidity provides a year’s worth of copy for jealous sports writers who couldn’t make it in the big league. Players excel on an annual basis.

Plastic Banknotes
Thanks to the CSIRO and the Reserve Bank of Australia, you aren’t left with a wad of mushy paper when you throw your jeans in the wash without checking the pockets.

The stubby cooler
More than just a way to keep your beer cold, souvenir stubby holders mark those great times – mainly at pubs.

VB
Introduced in the 1890s, VB has stuck around longer than an unwelcome relative in the spare room. Though the way it’s dropped in strength from 4.9 per cent to 4.6, it could be completely non-alcoholic by 2056.

Ugh boots
Long before Pamela Anderson turned them into a fashion statement – the vego didn’t realise that they were made from sheepskin – we knew the daggy boots were the shit in central heating for feet.

Crocodile Dundee
Whenever an Aussie pulls a root in the US, he owes some of his success to the reputation Paul Hogan established for us.

Chris Lilley's Characters
Ja'mie King, Mr G and Jonah Takalua were all great individually, but throwing them together in Summer Heights High made one of the best Aussie sitcoms ever and a massive hit. More dick-tation, please, Chris.

Electric Pacemaker
In 1928, Mark Lidwell and Edgar Booth devised the first artificial pacemaker, which was used to revive a stillborn baby at Sydney’s Crown Street Women’s Hospital.

Puppetry of the Penis
Dick tricks have been around since God told Abraham to lose the foreskin. But Simon Morley and David Friend took them from the changing room to Off Broadway.

The Ute
In the early 1930s, a Geelong farmer’s wife wrote to Ford asking for a vehicle for church on Sunday and market on Monday. By 1934, hoons were doing donuts in them.

The Hills Hoist
It’s handy for drying clothes and great for pegging a cask of wine to for a game of Goon of Fortune.

Tim Tams
The YouTube footage of Natalie Imbruglia performing the Tim Tam slam is the closest you’ll get to a sex video without nudity.

Streaking
Aussie bloke Michael O’Brien did what is widely considered the first nudie run, at Twickenham in 1974 during an England vs France rugby match. Drunk clowns have followed in his bare footsteps ever since.

The Black Box Flight Recorder
The indestructible box, which is usually orange, has provided air-crash investigators with valuable fodder for TV recreations.

If none of them are familiar to you, look 'em up! :-P