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January 25th 2010
The New Year in Far North Queensland is not much like that back home in Blighty. We upped-sticks to Australia back in 1997, but there are still some things you never really seem to get used to. After a steamy Christmas Day round the pool, January heralds the start of The Wet. There is precisely zero danger of having to scrape the ice off your windscreen of a morning, but we still suffer under lea ... read more
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Australian Flag 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
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