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When you travel Australia, you aren’t just a straw-hatted, sandal-footed tourist daintily stepping out of your comfort zone. Of course, you can be like that, but once in Australia, you’ll realise soon enough that you want to be someone else braver.
Extract of the XII Commonwealth Games opening ceremony as broadcast by ABC Television back in 1982. A tribute to we 6074 Brisbane school kids who put on a sensational display for the world. A tribute also to Ric Birch who directed the ceremony. All the colour of the Games unfolded at QEII on a fine [...] Image taken on 2008-09-17 22:48:40 by State Library of New South Wales collection.
Australiaâs Outback isn’t called the last frontier in the planet for nothing. For that matter, it isn’t called Amazing for nothing either. The Outback is known as the âBack of Beyondâ, which just means it could be anywhere in the map. Or rather, it refuses to be mapped. It’s one [...] Extract of the XII Commonwealth Games opening ceremony as broadcast by ABC Television back in 1982. A tribute to we 6074 Brisbane school kids who put on a sensational display for the world. A tribute also to Ric Birch who directed the ceremony. All the colour of the Games unfolded at QEII on a fine [...]
Perhaps one of the most charming things about the the Australian Outback is its stubborn changeability. Even its seemingly rigid mountains of rocks have their way of changing right before your eyes, as if the landscape refuses all human effort to be mapped.
Unroll that map And yet a map (and a compass too) [...] |
Sydney
September 5, 2010, 8:29 am
 Clear 17°Creal feel: 13°C
current pressure: 1006 mb
humidity: 41%
wind speed: 12 m/s NW
wind gusts: 12 m/s
sunrise: 6:07
sunset: 17:40
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