I'm from Australia and I thought all that dirt was normal. I've been collecting used condoms from hotel rooms for 7 years now. I currently have 3487. My favourite is a bright pink glow-in-the-dark one that I found still floating in a toilet. Also, I like to lie on the unwashed sheets of the bed and try to imagine all the people that have lain there before me.

If you haven't already figured out. That was pure sarcasm. I think everyone here is smart enough realise that people write news articles to get people to read them. The more outlandish and shocking, the more publicity it will get. Australia is a supremely beautiful and clean country and the people are no ruder than the rest of the world. I'm sure there are places in every country that it would be easy to write an embellished story about, based on details that in reality have much less of an impact.