Aussie salute

Such illustrations of the gesture colloquially referred to as the "Aussie salute" include YouTube videos, national television, and online publications.

Bent at the point of the elbow and straight from the wrist to the hand, the process of an Aussie Salute involves the arm being raised closer to the participant's face.

Going by the colloquial name bush fly, the animal (Musca vetustissima[4]) found in Australia is much more keen to place itself on the human face compared to its international counterparts.

The human population was not dense enough, and the precolonial Australian dog (the dingo[4]), had not been in the country long enough to establish themselves, having only been there for a few thousand years.

[4] With a highly varied diet and lack of competition for space, emu faeces are great breeding ground for the Musca vetustissima.

[4] The other factor that allowed for the native emu to facilitate the growth the bush fly (Musca vetustissima[4]) larvae is their estimated pre-colonial population.

The fly has been found to possibly carry bacteria such as E. coli[5] and associated with the eye disease trachoma,[5] caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis.