<p>I just heard on the radio that in Australia the Santa tales have Santa using kangaroos rather than reindeer, in that there are no reindeer on the Australian continent.</p>
<p>This sounds kinda fishy - does anyone have any first-hand knowledge.</p>
<p>Yes, there are several books and songs about this. I’ll look in my collection tomorrow to give some references. I believe that John Williamson has a song about the phenomena.</p>
<p>LOL! I love the title of your thread!</p>
<p>Greeting cards: [Australian</a> Santa Greeting Cards (Pk of 10) > Australian Santa Claus > MEGA-CELEBRATIONS | CafePress](<a href=“http://www.cafepress.com/30405060.72507690]Australian”>Greeting Cards - CafePress)</p>
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<p>New York Times: ‘We’re only just switching from Northern Hemisphere Christmas cards with Santa and snow and reindeer,’’ said Malcolm Bryce, Western Australia’s Deputy Premier. ‘‘It doesn’t snow here, and we don’t have reindeer. So on cards we’re now seeing kangaroos pulling sleighs instead of reindeer.’’ [IT’S</a> PERTH: PUB-CRAWLS AND SANTA’S KANGAROOS - New York Times](<a href=“http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE2DD123BF937A35752C0A961948260]IT’S”>http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE2DD123BF937A35752C0A961948260)</p>
<p>what is wrong with Kangaroos? i think that would be soooo cute</p>
<p>you don’t have to go down under to spend your holidays with 'roos
<a href=“Outback%20Christmas%20Tree%20and%20Kangaroo%20Farm%20-%20Arlington,%20WA”>url=http://www.christmastreesandroos.com/</a> The Outback Christmas Trees & Kangaroos Home Page</p>
<p>By the way. I don’t think there is a red-nosed kangaroo.</p>
<p>Hahaha. :)</p>
<p>LOL, I printed off the card and the lyrics, thought the family would get a kick out of it!</p>
<p>Slightly off topic, but Mem Fox wrote a lovely Christmas book called ‘Wombat Divine’ about all the aussie animals putting on the nativity pageant. The kangaroos play the parts of the wise men, I believe.</p>
<p>Also off-topic but on reading this thread, I thought about my father who was a hunter. When he shot his first antelope, he had the head mounted and it was hung above the family player piano. Every Christmas we’d gather round the piano to sing “Andy, the red-nosed antelope” My mother even crossed off Rudolph/reindeer and changed it to Andy/antelope on the player piano roll so anyone who joined us would know our family version of the song.</p>
<p>I know there is a ‘night before Christmas’- Aussie version. but I can’t put my hands on it. Does anyone else have it?</p>