Where the bloody hell are we?

Australians are known the world over as passionate travellers. It's pretty much impossible to visit any city, town or run-down shack in the middle of nowhere that hasn't already been overrun by our globe-trotting brethren. Every single country in the world is full of Aussie backpackers ... except, that is, Australia. So why do we have this passion for overseas travel? Partly, I'd like to think, because of an innate sense of adventure, but it's also because our homeland doesn't have a great deal to offer us. Tourism Australia, rather than asking where the bloody hell everyone else is, might be better off questioning where the locals keep going.