I am currently staying there for a research project and I can say it's quite enjoyable. Winter temperature isn't even that bad and the people are nice.
Any ideas what kind of stuff you want to do?
You could always go around checking out our big things: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia's_big_things
(I'm not sure how to make that link work properly)
Because in your eyes I'm just an ignorant dumb blonde raised by the consumer culture in western nations with no single regard to what's really important in life.
A vain women who wastes her time with trivial things in order to uphold her own importance of self-worth and the aspect of cosmetics.