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Background: Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name of Great Britain. Six colonies were created in the late 18th and 19th centuries; they federated and became the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901. The new country took advantage of its natural resources to rapidly develop its agricultural and manufacturing industries and to make a major contribution to the British effort in World Wars I and II. In recent decades, Australia has transformed itself into an internationally competitive, advanced market economy. It boasted one of the OECD's fastest growing economies during the 1990's, a performance due in large part to economic reforms adopted in the 1980's. Long-term concerns include pollution, particularly depletion of the ozone layer, and management and conservation of coastal areas, especially the Great Barrier Reef.




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By Sicknote
October 26th 2009
St Kilda. Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne » St Kilda
As I've said before, I liked St Kilda. Thought the tram ride was going to kill Ange (won't go into the details, but an old boy wouldn't let her sit down even though she was sick because he was saving the seat for his wife who was already happily seated at the front of the tram), and when we got there it was blowing a gale, but in the end it all turn out for the best. For a start, Ben and Jerry's were giving away free ice cream, and secondly the wood fired pizza we had was very tasty. You've [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 29th 2009 | 55 Views | [diary=448471]

And another.
Luna Park.
Ange's bridge.

By Greg13
October 26th 2009
Cairns Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cairns » Cairns City
Hello Australia! It's been two weeks in Cairns now and I'm loving the weather. I don't want to rub anybody's face in it, but the coldest it's been here for the last 2 weeks has been +28 and let me you tell you, that's kinda chilly when every other day is over 30. Cairns is a nice little city that should be on everybodies itinerary when they visit Australia. From here I've been able to go snorkel the Great Barrier Reef, walk through the world's oldest rainforest, and chill at some nice beaches. The great barrier reef is everything I thought [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 27th 2009 | 38 Views | [diary=448480]


Lions, Tigers, Koalas oh my! All of the wildlife that exists in Australia is also contained in the Taronga Zoo. We are not really site-seers for zoos, but it was really impressive. You can take a quick ferry boat ride from Cirqular Quay to the Taronga Zoo. After being dropped off you just see trees and tons of a lot of green vegetation. We took the cable car to the top of the mountain after checking in to be able to walk down the hill and see the animals. The first animals you come accross (or at least the ones we [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 4th 2009 | 22 Views | [diary=450278]

Look I can hold on with just my nails...
Check out my tongue!
Tall animals

Dear all welcome to our new additions to the blog and love to our existing avid readers(we hope!) We left you last heading into perth for 2 weeks, we need to tell you, don't always trust navman as the following story shows. We left GinGin just 50 odd kms north of perth to head in early monday morning so we could set up at the caravan park and take our car for service. So we drove on the highway and suddenly navman tells us to turn right. We thought wrong so we ignored, then it told us 10 kms down the [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 26th 2009 | 58 Views | [diary=448252]

dinner in Kalbarri
gina youve changed
Happy birthday Claudia!

Travling by plane..........very very tiring!!!! We left portlaoise at 11.30am on friday and arrived in sydney at 7am on sunday australia time ( about 10pm saturday at home ). We flew from dublin to heathrow first, took a while to get through security there, was kinda weird because since we were going from london to singapore we were going through the security for people going to that general area ( hong kong, thailand etc ) Everyone was either asian and wearing turbans- i didnt fit it - haha. Got on the plane a few hours later for singapore, 12 hour flight [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 26th 2009 | 43 Views | [diary=448296]


By naess
October 26th 2009
indy race Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Surfers Paradise
hele forgje uke blei det ikke mye skole. fordi di holdt på og rigge opp til indy, så hele veien var rett og slett sperret av. ikke at vi tok det så veldig tunkt, vi benyttet tiden til andre fornuftige ting som, male, surfe, bade og litt skole. på tirsadg kom en kamerat av meg og sandra fra sydney, mich. kjempe kar som vi har møtt i bali. i og med at han kom måtte vi en liten tur på casino, denne gangen ville vi prøve og spille litt. noe jeg også gjorde, men uten hell. tror ikke det er helt [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 26th 2009 | 33 Views | [diary=448300]

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24-10-09 Well today we are having an easy day, Den went to get a Battery box & leads to put the 2nd box under the bed. The Gold Coast V8 car races were on & Den had a lovely avo watching the races & I had a nana nap. We had tea & I caught up on my blag & diary, after watching TV we went to bed. 25-10-09 Today we went to get some fresh vegies from the “Veggie Trail” & we could not believe that the marketer’s get their water from a dry looking Gascoyne River (no water in [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 26th 2009 | 27 Views | [diary=448327]

2   24-10-09  See I do have a tan
3   25-10-09    Chinamans Pool Carnarvon
8   25-10-09    River Gums Cafe Carnarvon

By fanny and mark
October 25th 2009
Mapoon Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Weipa
ibis
ibis
vous pouvez donc voir quelque ibis sur l'arbre au milieu , ils sont un peu partout ici, ils sont cool
1 heures au nord de Weipa petite sortie sur Mapoon ( site aborigene) avec son ocean et ses different bleu ..... son sable blanc casser ..... un vrai ptit paradis , si l'on avais seulement pu se baigner ( on a croiser quelques fous des abo , mais on ne s'y est pas risquer) beaucoup de coquillage , que je ramasse tout en sachant que je ne peu pas les faire passer a la frontieres ;( ptit partie de peche ( mark et sa nouvelle canne a peche ) ou l'on a pu voir de gros poisson sauter etc .... mais [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 28th 2009 | 14 Views | [diary=448853]

vue du pont
direction mapoon
le camion de pompier

The next day was our 6.5 hour drive back to Sydney. One the way down we stopped at one of the Hunter Valley Vineyards and had a tour on how to make wine, had lunch, and then the wine sampling began. Lets just say on the was to Sydney from Hunter Valley everyone was very merry. The wine supplied was endless, as much as you wanted they gave you. When we got to Sydney we drove to Macquarie Chair and has our Sydney Group Photo taken with a backdrop of the Harbour Bridge and Opera House. After that it was [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 25th 2009 | 13 Views | [diary=448071]


For those of you who are faithful blog readers you have probably been wondering where on earth we have got to. For the others, you are probably grateful that we have gone silent. The reason there has been no word from us is that we have been travelling a route that we travelled on our last trip and it would have been repeating myself. But a quick overview .... Like last time, we spent a couple of weeks in Gracemere, just outside Rockhampton where we enjoyed the company of John's family. He has two daughters, one son and two grandchildren living [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 25th 2009 | 38 Views | [diary=447967]

Our campsite at Woombye, Qld.
New born foals at Nambour family property.
New life for a potential race horse.