Talk:Metrication in Australia
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[edit] Clean up
This article needs some serious cleanup. For example, the paragraph about bolts is not specific to Australia, and should not be included. Captain Jackson 16:47, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
- Agreed. I've tidied it up considerably but suggest that it still needs specific sections on temperature and currency. Cleanup tag is removed, but feel free to replace. -- I@n ≡ talk 13:25, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] £ & $
Can someone explain what does currency have to do with metric system? Metric system ISOs (ISO-31, ISO-1000 and ISO-80000) are not recommendations of currency system, don't even mention that possibility. In fact, attempts to apply metric system rules to currency (k$?) would break the rules of metric system usage.
[edit] The conversion song
In come the dollars, in come the cents, to replace the pounds and shillings and the pence...
I always thought that it was two replace the pounds and shillings and the pence --TrogWoolley 15:08, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] stone weight measurement
I am from Australia and was surprised to see in the "metric system" article that australia was listed as being converted to metric only in the 1980s. But seeing this article explains why. I was born in 1987 so I may not be the one to say exactly when it converted, but it should be noted somewhere in this article that although some imperial things remain...it is very much metric. It's true that people often talk about feet and inches for height, but for anythign else I have no idea how long 15 feet is for example without trying to mathematically convert it to meters in my head. The same is true for the average aged australians I think. And some hardware products being in imperial units is interesting, but i guess just the american influence really. Noone at all thinks in imperial units except for height.
Most importantly, the "stone" weight measurement is certainly not used in australia. I have heard of it, and my parents recall the measurement being used when they were younger but they don't have any sense of how heavy someoen who weighs a given amount of stones is today. And i have never seen it written anywhere or spoken anywhere other than from my parents in australia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rhino015 (talk • contribs) 09:43, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
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BetacommandBot (talk) 16:22, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
