Australia? oh, that's in Europe

[karameh1]

Last night ol' Georgie reported that Olivia Newton-John's former boyfriend has turned up alive and well in Mexico, supposedly given up for lost after eleven years.  First he says he had taken up with an Australian woman down there, then in a slightly dismissive tone he reiterated this news item by -- what, clarifying?, that this dude was now accompanied by a "European" girlfriend.  Perhaps GN was waxing intellectual by speaking in terms of ethnic heritage, pointing out the origins of the Down Under majority population of today, but I don't think so; in my half-asleep stupor I may have conceivably misheard him when he really said "Austrian" which of course IS in Europe, but again I doubt that too.  Is this what Art Bell was talking about when he was quoted in Time two years ago saying that GN had gotten "lazy", as in failing to consistently un-severe the tie twixt brain and tongue ??