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Happy New Year!!!

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January 1st 2007
So............ A fantastic but long night last night! watched the fireworks over the harbour bridge and it was like nothing I'd ever seen before - Carshalton Park eat your heart out! We were sat on the bank opposite the opera house and could see the displays going off all down the river, it was truely stunning. The Hostel we were in had arranged a private area for us for our favorite price o ... 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