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I'm glad that QF does the "boys and girls" thing too on flights. It's so sort of charming and aussie - makes you know you're on the way home http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif
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Next thing we know, you'll be claiming pavlovas are an Australian invention as well
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Since you can hear "ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls" fairly often on Air New Zealand as well, perhaps the custom is better described as antipodean, rather than aussie. (And I wonder if both copied the custom from somewhere else).