How far is Melbourne from Sydney?
PAUL LEYDEN: About an hour and ten minutes by plane. It’s about a twelve-hour drive. CBS.com: Do you think Americans have some common misconceptions about Australia? PAUL LEYDEN: It’s so far away; it’s a twenty-five hour flight. That’s daunting enough. I guess a lot of Americans don’t even get out of America, so the last place they’d go is Australia because it’s so far away. There’s not a lot of exposure in the States to good Australian television, and you don’t get a lot of our films on general release over here either. Which is a shame, because I think good Australian drama is as good as the good American drama. Our primetime shows can be just as good as NYPD Blue or Law & Order. It’s just very Australian. I think a lot of people don’t know that the majority of people in Australia live on the coast, that we don’t all live in the Outback and ride kangaroos around. And we aren’t all like the Crocodile Hunter, you know? I can’t remember the last time I actually had to wrestle a crocodil
