Wallaby looking out from grass tree

South Australia and Victoria

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January 20th 2013
I was frightened when I first saw Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds”. When we arrived at the caravan park in Edenhope, S.A. and the proprietors told us the conservation officer would be coming by in the evening to shoot at the Corrillas (white parrots with the red slash across their throats). We didn’t understand, thinking this was just more Australian slang. When we turned into the park we no ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne » Glen Waverley

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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