Well England finally regain the Ashes. Congratulations. England did outplay Australia in the majority of of the series. The Australian team is looking a bit long in the tooth these days. It's prolly time to give some young turks a bit of a go.
The bright side of losing the Ashes is that it's now politically correct to Bash Poms again. It's been so easy these last 10 years it was no longer fun down here.
The other bright side is that there appears to be a English sporting revival so the 2006 Commonwealth games here in Melbourne may not be the Australian procession the last few events have been. It would be good to have a bit of challenge and interest from the rest of Commonwealth.
I lived in Canada for a while. While I was there I was continually told how Canadians were different from Americans. I always thought that if Canada was actually any good at sports played in the rest of the Commonwealth they could stop looking at the Country to it's South and have fun bashing the Poms like we do. There is nothing like supporting your National Team over a 3 month tour.