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Wine, friends and high prices in WA and NSW

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August 7th 2012
After 4 months in Asia, I was ready to move onto somewhere different and catch up with friends in Australia but I barely registered arriving as we landed in Perth at 4 in the morning. I was soon wide eyed though as I saw the taxi meter ticking over as if it was a stopwatch as it made its way the few kilometers across town to Leederville, where Clem and Becky live. Somehow it made its way to $50 by ... 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