Australians have a history of being black tea drinkers and following their mostly British heritage, but that is rapidly changing.
We were known for drinking a classic style of black tea called “Billy Tea’” and this was well known in the 1800’s and early 1900’s. It was almost always consumed with milk and sugar.
By world standards we don’t rate that high in consumption, approximately number 55, even being beaten by New Zealand.
Even though we are still mainly black tea consumer
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