---- FACT: New Zealand Is Better Than Australia // Gizmodo Illustration by: Angelica Alzona The Gizmodo office is rife with Australians. I mean. There are only two. But that is a lot, statistically speaking. According to Wikipedia there are only about 60 well-known Australians in America. Also according to Wikipedia , in the year 2000, there were only about 61,000 Aussies horfing down Vegemite while telling us that what we had wasn't a knife. So to have two of them rolling around the office talking about made up sounding places like Sydney and Melbourne was some absolute culture shock. But it has also made me try to sound cool and worldly by mentioning things I love about their "blessed country"—only to realize that I was actuallytalking about New Zealand. So here's the deal, outside of Mad Max: Fury Road and Baz Lurhman's seminal ode to ranching, Australia , the land from Down Under has given this world of ours basically nothing. I ...