----------------------------- Geoffrey Thorndyke Former Retired Lecturer and Business Adviser6mo
Why do people in Australia rarely have washing machines? What's the problem with buying one?
Well it’s to do with Geography. Most of the world’s washing machine makers are in the Northern Hemisphere, and as Australia is in the Southern Hemisphere the machines would be upside down and thus not work very well. So in Australia you need to install your machine upside down for it to function, and this makes it difficult to read the instructions.
For this reason most Aussies prefer to use the old fashioned method of bashing clothes on the rocks to wash them.