My last night in Cairns

Work Hard, Play Hard in Oz

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January 28th 2007
Brisbane I flew into Brisbane on the 28th January, and damn, was it a short sharp change from Asia! I soon got from the airport to the town centre on a train, but the prices were just nothing like what I was expecting. I knew it would be steeper than Asia, obviously, but not this much! Someone told me that the prices in ozzie dollars would be similar to british pounds (eg Mars bar = 40p = ... 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