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Selling your home
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How to build a solid profit on the sale of your home. Cairns area and Port Douglas. Home & Site Map. This article by Bryce Courtenay appeared in The Australian newspaper. Several years ago and is as relevant today as it was then. Bryce Courtenay's books are available here. One of the more unrewarding experiences you can have within the urban landscape is the business of selling your home. Building a home is said to be the number one cause of nervous breakdowns and the number two of divorce. A properly ma...
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Australian slang dictionary
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Learn these Australian slang words and phrases. And you'll feel at home on your first day Down Under. Cairns area and Port Douglas. Home & Site Map. It wasn't easy but we've tried to include uniquely Australian slang here and to exclude British and American slang even though these are commonly used in Australia. We see no point in informing the world that fridge is Australian slang for a refrigerator. If you've got any comments. Or suggestions, though, we'd very much like to hear them. Search for a word.
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European settlement in Australia
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Captain Cook first sighted the east coast of Australia in 1770. Cairns area and Port Douglas. Home & Site Map. In 1606, Spanish navigator Luis Vaez de Torres sailed through the strait which now bears his name. In the same year, a Dutch ship, Duyfken, made the first authenticated landing in Australia at Cape York. In 1642, Dutchman Abel Tasman reached Tasmania, which he named Van Diemen's Land. Population growth and economic expansion prompted the colonies to call for self-government. On 1 January 190...
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Australian fauna and flora
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Australian Fauna and Flora. The isolation of Australia for 55 million years created a sanctuary. For the birds, animals and plants which have lived here. Cairns area and Port Douglas. Home & Site Map. Australia s best-known animals are the kangaroo, koala, platypus, wombat and spiny anteater. Isolation enabled the Australian continent to become a sanctuary for marsupials - mammals that suckle their young in pouches. Of the bird species listed in Australia, 400 - including the large, flightless emu - are ...
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Complaint about Pommy slang entry
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Cairns area and Port Douglas. Home & Site Map. On 22nd May 2008 the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) in Sydney sent a letter to Koala Net stating that they had received a complaint from an organisation calling itself British People Against Racial Discrimination (BPARD). BPARD felt that the entries on the Australian slang page referring to Poms were derogatory and offensive. Koala Net disagrees and will not delete the entries unless forced to by an Australian court.
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Australian photographs
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Photographs of animals, scenery, Fraser Island and Coloured Sands. Cairns area and Port Douglas. Home & Site Map. You can also see bigger versions of the paintings. Which appear elsewhere on these pages. Most of the photographs you see on these pages are available in larger sizes. Just click on the photograph below to see it full size. We koalas live here too. Books by and about Aborigines, fiction and non-fiction. Aboriginal music CDs and musical instruments. Design 1996-2016, Koala Net.
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Noosa Heads
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St Tropez, Ipanema, Malibu, Noosa. Cairns area and Port Douglas. Home & Site Map. All are places where you can relax, have a good time and indulge yourself. Places where city dwellers can cast off their daily worries and stresses. In Australia we call that place Noosa. Noosa is at the northern end of Queensland s sub-tropical Sunshine Coast. Sanctuary where birds and wildlife can be found in their natural habitat. Few Australians have seen a koala in the wild but in Noosa they're not an uncommon sight.
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Fraser Island
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The largest sand island in the world. Is situated just north of Noosa. Cairns area and Port Douglas. Home & Site Map. Named after shipwreck victim Eliza Fraser, the World Heritage listed sub-tropical Fraser Island has a truly amazing array of natural wonders including beautiful rainforests, pristine lakes, endless surf beaches, immense sand blows, cliffs of coloured sands, crystal clear streams and vast stretches of mangroves. Pictured left is a sugar glider and, right, a dingo. Now listed as a World Her...
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Australia's geography and history
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Australia's geography and history. Australia is the sixth largest nation in the world and is. The only one to occupy an entire continent. Cairns area and Port Douglas. Home & Site Map. Its land mass of nearly 7.7 million km² makes it the sixth largest country in area after Russia, Canada, China, the United States and Brazil. It is the flattest and (after Antarctica) the dryest of continents, yet it has extremes of climate and topography. More than one-fifth of its land area is desert, more than two-third...