Sydney (2);

Sydney (2);

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January 6th 2007
Monday 1st January to Saturday 6th January 2007. New Years Day was for me, like for billions of others around the world, a day of recovery from the excesses of the previous evening and the hill to the train station in the opposite direction a lot less testing than the previous afternoon. I caught the 11.37am train back to Melbourne and went straight to hostel, checked in and made my way to the mo ... 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