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Broken Hill Part 2

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June 9th 2008
Later in the week at Broken Hill we visited School of the Air, we arrived at 8.30am and watched a lesson to the Kindergarten children. It was wonderful to see how it all worked and hear the children talk back and forth to their teacher often hearing their little brothers and sisters in the background. We went out to Silverton which is a Ghost Town 50mins out of Broken Hill, once a town of thou ... read more

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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... ... read more