Opera House Sunset

The 20 Minute Shuttle That Wasn't

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August 11th 2006
The journey to the airport for the flight to Sydney was extremely stressful. We had booked the airport shuttle, which apparently would take twenty minutes to get there. What the hotel had not told us was that we would go though the usual rounds of hotel pick-ups and then take us to Spencer Street Station (now the Southern Cross Station for some reason). From there it was twenty minutes to a parti ... 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