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Cruising to the 7th Continent

Posted by Marilyn Jones
|Date: August 31, 2025
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Cruising to the 7th Continent

With my newfound friends gathered around me, I celebrated my 70th birthday. Joy, Barbara, and Cansi sang ...

With my newfound friends gathered around me, I celebrated my 70th birthday. Joy, Barbara, and Cansi sang Happy Birthday to me as the wait staff joined in and presented me with a slice of chocolate cak ...

August 31, 2025
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JOURNEY THROUGH THE HEART OF AUSTRALIA ABOARD THE GHAN

Posted by Gary and Pamela Baker
|Date: September 27, 2022
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JOURNEY THROUGH THE HEART OF AUSTRALIA ABOARD THE GHAN

“ALL ABOARD”Long and sleek, like the kilometre-long train lined up next to it, the Adelaide Parklands Rai ...

“ALL ABOARD”Long and sleek, like the kilometre-long train lined up next to it, the Adelaide Parklands Railway Station gleams in the sunlight as we arrive for our long-awaited rail journey. Inside atte ...

September 27, 2022
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INTO AUSTRALIA’S RED CENTRE

Posted by Drew Snider
|Date: May 27, 2021
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INTO AUSTRALIA’S RED CENTRE

Silence. Not eerie, foreboding, midnight-in-the-graveyard silence, but a profound calm and a total absenc ...

Silence. Not eerie, foreboding, midnight-in-the-graveyard silence, but a profound calm and a total absence of sound. It is 1 a.m., and I am lying on my back in a swag on the soft red sand near the mid ...

May 27, 2021
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MARVELLOUS MELBOURNE

Posted by John Thomson
|Date: February 25, 2021
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MARVELLOUS MELBOURNE

You really can’t fault Melburnians for feeling a bit smug about their city. After all, The Economist Inte ...

You really can’t fault Melburnians for feeling a bit smug about their city. After all, The Economist Intelligence Unit, the research and analysis arm of The Economist magazine, once called Melbourne t ...

February 25, 2021
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Australia’s Outback: Red Roads and Stickybeaks

Posted by Ian Carter
|Date: November 01, 2018
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Australia’s Outback: Red Roads and Stickybeaks

“I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains … Her beauty and her terror - The wide brown land f ...

“I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains … Her beauty and her terror - The wide brown land for me!” My Country - Dorothea Mackellar (1904) “I have some bad news,” said Bongo. “That Underg ...

November 01, 2018
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Australia and New Zealand

Posted by Barbara Risto
|Date: September 30, 2018
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Australia and New Zealand

Few countries, much less continents, have as many unique features as the land known as Australia. From th ...

Few countries, much less continents, have as many unique features as the land known as Australia. From the mystical Ayers Rock near Alice Springs to the Great Barrier Reef off the coast, the land and ...

September 30, 2018
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Tasmania’s Poor Devils

Posted by John Thomson
|Date: June 01, 2018
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Tasmania’s Poor Devils

My wife and I are in downtown Hobart standing in front of the wooden hut that once housed Australian expl ...

My wife and I are in downtown Hobart standing in front of the wooden hut that once housed Australian explorer Douglas Mawson and his Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1912. (The hut is a replica. T ...

June 01, 2018
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Lovin’ the Lavender Life

Posted by Sherry Conly
|Date: May 01, 2018
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Lovin’ the Lavender Life

When it comes to second chances, Victoria Lavender owner and farmer Alan Mayfield could write the book. I ...

When it comes to second chances, Victoria Lavender owner and farmer Alan Mayfield could write the book. It took not one but two major heart attacks in his mid-fifties to change the trajectory of his l ...

May 01, 2018
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Vic Sarin: The Art of the Possible

Posted by John Thomson
|Date: February 01, 2018
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Vic Sarin: The Art of the Possible

“My whole journey has been to experience life and I don’t know of any other profession as rich as mine th ...

“My whole journey has been to experience life and I don’t know of any other profession as rich as mine that allows you to do that. I’ve travelled the world a million times over and lived in so many pl ...

February 01, 2018
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Australia: Scratching the Surface

Posted by Enise Olding
|Date: October 01, 2009
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Australia: Scratching the Surface

In 1787, the first fleet left Portsmouth, England with its load of convict passengers bound for what is n ...

In 1787, the first fleet left Portsmouth, England with its load of convict passengers bound for what is now called Australia. Captain Arthur Phillip aboard HMS Sirius was not taken with Botany Bay and ...

October 01, 2009
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