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You won't find swinging saloon doors and gun-toting bolsters, but with
its tough pioneer history and gold fever tales Kal, as its known
locally is the hub of Western Australia's Wild West.Much remains unchanged from 1800s Kalgoorlie,
when the streets and hotels teemed with gold-fevered...
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Some years ago, I was hunkered down over a painting I,d just bought, popping the staples out of the stretcher bars in front of the gas station in Lajamanu, a dusty Aboriginal township smack in the middle of the Tanami Desert in Australia,s Northern Territory. The painting,...
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About 850km north of Perth lies Monkey Mia said My-ah, the world famous
beach where friendly dolphins swim to shore to interact with eager
humans. Located near the town of Denham on the Peron Peninsula, this
protected area is housed within the extraordinary Shark Bay World
Heritage Area. Monkey...
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Located 500km west of Alice Springs in Central Australia, Ayers Rock is
considered to be among the natural wonders of the world. Uluru is the
aboriginal name for Ayers Rock and is owned by the aboriginal people of
the Pitjatjanjara and Anangu tribes from the settlement of Arunta. The
best way...
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THE LOST MERMAID
There was once a young mermaid who got caught in a violent storm. It picked her up in a swirling tempest and took her far from home. She swam and swam until she could fight no more. Tired and exhausted she landed on a beach on a foreign shore.The mermaid was...
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It seems that backpackers and students are helping Queensland through tough economic times.
The latest figures show that while visitor numbers to Queensland decreased by 5.6% to just over two million during 2008, actual expenditure and the total number of nights they stayed has increased.
Tourism...
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Australia's Hunter Valley wine region has the kind of rural quietude that seems straight out of 1950s Iowa, minus the corn. Rustic wineries hide behind stands of rustling gum trees, and a misty, golden light bathes the hillsides, just 120 minutes from Sydney's CBD. I arrived at Tower...
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Having arrived in Cairnson a comfortable and direct flight up from Sydney to celebrate our anniversary, my wife and I checked into the Hilton Cairns.
Our accommodation in one of their King Spa rooms was a slightly surreal
experience. The bathroom with Jacuzzi is entirely glass walled with
floor...
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I,ve heard Adelaide referred to as Australia,s
largest country town, as well as Australia,s hidden gem. The latter is
definitely more appropriate. Quite often visitors travelling Australia
miss out on Adelaide, focusing on the larger cities. That includes
domestic...
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This months bushfires in the state of Victoria already count as Australias greatest national disaster, in terms of both human cost and likely material damage. Almost 200 people have lost their lives; more than 500 have been injured, and the toll is set to rise, perhaps dramatically, when all the...
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