5. TOGETHER WE'RE THE GREATEST COUNTRY ON EARTH...


What other bidder on this list can offer one of the world's most mountainous countries and one of its flattest in one package?

What about snowboarding, skiing, bungee jumping and extreme sports on some of the world's most picturesque mountains?

Not your thing? Well you're just a hop across the pond from some of Earth's most ancient tropical rainforests and incredible diversity of wildlife. We're a region where the most inane flightless birds go hand-in-hand with the world's most dangerous predators.

Still not enticed? Well you're just a skip across the dividing range from the globe's most blistering deserts and awe-inspiring rock formations, caves and canyons.

And if you're a city-slicker, well, so are we. Hell, we even put skyscrapers on the world's greatest beaches.

We have the most urbanised population on earth because even the likes of Brisbane have a level of beauty that most other people on the planet aren't lucky enough to comprehend.

Wellington, Melbourne and Sydney have all been voted the most liveable cities in the world. Even Adelaide is in the top 10 and if you don't know how weird that sounds then you've clearly never been to Melbourne, Sydney or Wellington.

Our only actual boring city, Canberra, even had the common decency to rule itself out of the WWC hosting equation.

All this means that an Australian / New Zealand World Cup bid is comparable to a World Cup bid from the entiriety of Europe combined.

Just without all that pesky culture.