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Brisbane

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October 15th 2008
Right well we are going for a different format now seeing as we're not doing much bar eating and sunbathing, we'll put a stop to boring you with a day by day account! We firstly stayed at the Backpackers Inn at Brisbane which had its own Irish Bar attached to it - very handy. Met loads of sound people, so sound that when we went to stay in the Yellow Submarine hostel we went back most nights f ... 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