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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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The day started early as we Stephen and I headed to Flemington Racecourse to witness the 149th Emirates Melbourne Cup!! Sean and David surprised us with 2 yellow boutonnieres for us to wear with our suits! This Melbourne Cup is a holiday in Victoria and the race is known as "the horse race that stops a nation." People all over Australia are celebrating and drinking the day away at the Cup or local race tracks in the nation! Each year the Melbourne Cup has several races but the big event started at 3:00pm. 24 horses competed today in the 3200 [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 3rd 2009 | 63 Views | [diary=450442]

Emirates Melbourne Cup
The Banks
Us at The Cup

By Stelson
November 3rd 2009
Melbourne St. Kilda Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne » St Kilda
We arrived to the city of Melbourne around 1245 am. David picked us up from the airport and brought us to their beautiful apartment in St. Kilda. Stephen and I were a bit jet lagged but we managed to get up early for the Melbourne Cup!! We are having a wonderful time here visiting with David and Sean!! The apartment is located in St. Kilda and has an amazing view of the city, the bay and a theme park! This morning Sean made a yummy breakfast and the guys surpised us with yellow flowers for our suits!!! In the evening, we [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 3rd 2009 | 53 Views | [diary=450450]

Apartment View
The Age
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By daveandmary
November 3rd 2009
Cairns Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cairns » Inn The Tropics
We set off on the 23rd nov 2009 and arrive in Cairns on 24th. Hopefully we will pick up our campervan and intend staying in and around Cairns for a few weeks. [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 3rd 2009 | 9 Views | [diary=450545]


If there is one thing I learned from visiting Kyran in Melbourne, it is to accept people's generosity - especially when it is put in writing! Before we left to go on the tour in Alice Springs I emailed Kim, our friend from Tango night in Buenos Aires to see if she wanted to grab a drink when we visited Sydney. Her reply shocked me with its generosity. She said that she was out of town during the period that we are in Sydney, but that her apartment was empty and that we were more than welcome to use it. I [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 7th 2009 | 37 Views | [diary=451286]

Bondi Beach
Botanic Gardens with the Harbour Bridge in the background
The Opera House

Holy crap, SO hot. 39 degrees today! The breeze itself was hot. Definitely another day for the beach! Munched on some delicious wrap from our secret food court and all made a joint decision to go to Bondi beach again. This is definitely 'get brown' weather. Final day for our travelcards so may as well get use out of them! Ahhhhhhhhh glorious glorious ocean. I wish I was a mermaid and was friends with all the fish, a shiny tail and seashells, that would be my wish! For those of you who don't know, that is an extract from The O.C [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 4th 2009 | 31 Views | [diary=450584]


Heute steht ganz Australien Kopf, denn es ist Melbourne Cup (Pferderennen). Das heißt alle machen blau ab 14 Uhr (außer die armen Köche und Kellner, die heut natürlich Kohle machen mit Melbourne-Cup-Lunch und Live-Übertragung...). Und jeder wettet natürlich auf ein, zwei, drei oder mehr Pferde! Uli und ich kommen grad vom Wettbüro. Ich hab einen Wettschein auf drei Pferde ausgefüllt: Nr.7 "Ista Kareem" und Nr.11 "Alcopop" und Nr.24 "Leica Ding". Und zwar kann ich was gewinnen wenn eines von den Pferden eine Platzierung erreicht und natürlich mehr, wenn alle einen Platz belegen ;) Außerdem hab [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 2nd 2009 | 15 Views | [diary=450319]


What an amazing day yesterday! It was a sunny and cloudless day for a wedding, one every girl dreams of! Chris (Alyson's brother, who lives here in Austalia) and his wife Kirsty kindly picked us up at the hotel. On the way to Alastair's home, we stopped by Chris & Kirsty's home and had a local tour of the outskirts of Perth. Still haven't had any kangaroo sightings! We arrived at Jeanette & Graham's (Alastair's parents) beautiful home. Alyson greeted us and told us the power was out!! A little panic but after a couple hours, the power miraculously restarted! As [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 2nd 2009 | 59 Views | [diary=450061]

Graham and Jeanette's Home
Wedding Ceremony Site
Stainglass

After Tasmania, I returned to Melbourne to meet with Joe, Claudette and Nina who had planned the easter weekend in great ocean road region. We visited the most popular site around our camping. Then I went back to Melbourne and work a bit on my van to improved and fix little details noted during the Tasmania and great ocean road trip. Belived me now, buy everything you might need in Melbourne or Sydney otherwise it will get expensive and hard to find if you head for the west coast. I miss a power converter, fishing gear, body board by the time [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 2nd 2009 | 27 Views | [diary=450078]

Great ocean road
Great ocean road
Crab phishing

Once at Perth i wanted to relaxe so I plan to stay one week. I wanted to travel with another person for that leg of the trip so I needed time to find some other traveller heading north. For the few first night I stayed near the city center of Perth in the bar district. For some reason I didn't fit in those hostel and the people were not inclusive. Worst people were watching soccer and clubbing at night and comming back very drunk...maybe because they were young british. So I decided to move to Perth nearest beach which was in [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 2nd 2009 | 15 Views | [diary=450089]

CS island trip
CS island trip
CS island trip

Well, we have been in Australia nearly six weeks now, and our time here is flying already. Our first week or so was spent in Perth where we were very busy sorting out bank accounts, getting our mobile phones up and running, looking at and buying our campervan and hunting for jobs. All of this only took us only 10 days which was great and by the 7th October we had left Perth behind us and we drove south to Williams (in our new home), which is 3 hours from Perth. Williams is a tiny little town with a population of [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 2nd 2009 | 39 Views | [diary=447175]

Shelley Beach
Shelley Beach
Shelley Beach