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The Pack Track
This couple set off on a motorbike world tour with their beloved dog. Then tragedy struck
Janell and Stu Clarke set off on an epic motorcycle trip around the world with dog Skyla nearly 10 years ago. Now, the couple, who have traveled 150,000 miles and ridden through 108 countries, are returning home with three rescue dogs they picked up along the way.
Royal penguins, Eudyptes schlegeli, and Southern elephant seals, Mirounga leonina, on sand beach. Sandy Bay, Macquarie Island, Sub Antarctic, administered by Tasmania, Australia.
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Australia to triple size of protected marine park to area larger than Germany
The sophisticated skyline of Melbourne comes alive as the city lights up as twilight descends over this modern city. Shot with a long exposure from Southbank across the Yarra River.
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Sorry, Sydney — Melbourne is now officially Australia’s biggest city
View of Pantelleria coast famous island in Sicily
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The world’s greatest places of 2023, according to TIME
These two women have visited every country in the world.
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What it’s like to travel to every country in the world
Dubbed "Toadzilla," the cane toad found by rangers in Queensland, Australia, could be the world's biggest.
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Toadzilla, a giant cane toad found in Australia, may be a record-breaker
Crabs on Ethel Beach.
Justin Gilligan
What it’s like to live on Christmas Island
The four escapee cubs celebrated their first birthday this summer along with sibling Ayanna who stayed within the enclosure.
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New footage reveals how 5 lions escaped their Sydney zoo enclosure
The Majestic Princess cruise ship is seen docked at the International Terminal on Circular Quay in Sydney on November 12, 2022. - The Majestic Princess docked in Sydney with more than 800 Covid-19 positive passengers onboard, reports said. (Photo by Muhammad FAROOQ / AFP) (Photo by MUHAMMAD FAROOQ/AFP via Getty Images)
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Cruise ship with 800 Covid-positive passengers docks in Sydney
Five African lion cubs play with a large ball in celebration of their first birthday at Taronga Zoo in Sydney on Friday, Aug. 12, 2022.
Rick Rycroft/AP
Lions slip loose from Sydney zoo enclosure, overnight guests rushed to safety
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How Australia’s deepest cave was discovered
New Zealand's landscapes, such as that at Milford Sound, are unforgettable.
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Travel to New Zealand during Covid-19: What you need to know before you go
Festivalgoers are seen in the mud at Splendour in the Grass 2022 on July 22, 2022 in Byron Bay, Australia
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Australia’s largest music festival sinks into the mud forcing first day cancellation
A broad view of the control panel and timber phone desks in the White Bay Power Station Control Room.
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The photographer documenting Australia’s abandoned places
People take a tour with small boats on one of the branches of Danube river, the Old Danube, near the Vienna International Centre in Vienna, Austria, on June 1, 2022. (Photo by JOE KLAMAR / AFP) (Photo by JOE KLAMAR/AFP via Getty Images)
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The world’s most liveable cities for 2022
Vision includes traditional dance performance by Island Stars, scenic shots of Thursday Island and Horn Island, local feasting style lunch, visitors looking at local museum and walking around wartime infrastructure.
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A new way to explore Australia’s most mysterious region
Australia's tough border controls have worked in its favor during the pandemic.
Hamilton Lund
Travel to Australia during Covid-19: What you need to know before you go
The Kimberley, Western Australia
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Amazing Australia experiences for every type of traveler
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The travelers who created their own cozy campervans
Coral at Stanley Reef, about 83 miles (133 kilometers) off Townsville in Queensland, shows signs of bleaching caused by rising sea temperatures. Underwater images taken in 2022 show the Great Barrier Reef is suffering heat stress. The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has just completed aerial surveys of all 3,000 reefs on the reef system. The reef has suffered damage despite the La Nina weather system that usually lowers maximum average temperatures.
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The Great Barrier Reef is suffering a sixth mass-bleaching event. Here’s why scientists are concerned
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Four Seasons Melbourne to open in skyscraper complex featuring world’s tallest vertical garden
A koala in a outdoor pen at Port Macquarie Koala Hospital on September 14, 2020, in Port Macquarie, Australia.
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Australia says koalas are now an endangered species in two states
A view of a letter sent to Lithuanian woman Genowefa Klonowska around 50 years ago in Vilnius, Lithuania, January 25, 2022. Picture taken January 25, 2022. REUTERS/Janis Laizans
Janis Laizans/Reuters
Hidden letters delivered 50 years after they were posted
ULURU, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 10: Qantas flight number QF787, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft flies close to Uluru in the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Northern Territories on October 10, 2020 in Uluru, Australia. With international and domestic border closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic putting a halt on travel, the Qantas Great Southern Land Scenic flight will take 150 passengers on an aerial tour over iconic Australian destinations. The seven-hour scenic flight on board a Qantas 787 Dreamliner aircraft - usually used for long haul international flights - will perform a loop from Sydney up to locations along the New South Wales and Queensland coasts as well as Uluru in the Northern Territory before landing back in Sydney. (Photo by James D. Morgan/Getty Images)
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Flights to nowhere changed Covid-era air travel. This is where they’re headed now
BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 13: A family reunites at Brisbane's domestic terminal after the first flight from Melbourne since border restrictions have eased arrived on December 13, 2021 in Brisbane, Australia. Queensland's border is now open to fully vaccinated domestic travelers into the state without needing to quarantine. Unvaccinated arrivals must quarantine for 14 days. (Photo by Dan Peled/Getty Images)
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More border rules ease in Australia ahead of Christmas holidays
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Great Barrier Reef explodes into life in ‘magical’ spawning event
A picture taken on October 29, 2013 shows a terminal of Hamad International Airport in Doha. AFP PHOTO / AL-WATAN DOHA / KARIM JAAFAR == QATAR OUT == (Photo credit should read KARIM JAAFAR/AFP via Getty Images)
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Australian women to sue Qatar over forced invasive examinations at Doha airport
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 01: People greeting one another in the arrivals hall after landing at Sydney Airport on November 01, 2021 in Sydney, Australia. Fully vaccinated international travellers arriving in New South Wales from Monday 1 November are no longer required to enter mandatory hotel quarantine, following the easing of state and federal COVID-19 border rules. Australian citizens can also now leave the country without requiring a travel exemption. (Photo by James D. Morgan/Getty Images for Sydney Airport)
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Scenes of joy as Australia’s international travel restarts after nearly 20 months
This imagined floating pool on the Glebe Foreshore speculative idea for further down the line.
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Sydney mayor has plans for a swimmable harbor
A silent departures forecourt outside the International Terminal at Kingsford Smith Airport on September 15, 2021 in Sydney, Australia.
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Australia’s biggest city to end Covid-19 quarantine for international travelers
A humpback whale -- one of more than 100 -- feeds on a bait ball off Australia's New South Wales South Coast.
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Incredibly rare ‘megapod’ of more than 100 humpback whales surrounds boat off coast of Australia
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JULY 20: Staff are seen preparing Pfizer vaccine doses inside the Melbourne Showgrounds COVID-19 Vaccination Centre on July 20, 2021 in Melbourne, Australia. Premier Daniel Andrews has announced a 7 day extension on the lockdown in Victoria, as the state continues to record new community COVID-19 cases and work to stop the spread of the highly infectious delta coronavirus strain in the community. (Photo by Daniel Pockett/Getty Images)
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Australia to trial vaccine passports over coming days as post-Covid opening preparation begins
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - JUNE 28: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern addresses media during a post cabinet press conference at Parliament on June 28, 2021 in Wellington, New Zealand. The Wellington region is in alert level 2 until 11.59pm on Tuesday while the rest of the country is at level 1 following the emergence of new COVID-19 cases in New Zealand linked to a cluster outbreak in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images)
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New Zealand to slowly re-open to the world from early 2022
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What’s a dim sim? How an oversized dumpling became an Australian food icon
This file photo taken on September 22, 2014, shows fish swimming through the coral on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Populations of marine mammals, birds, reptiles and fish have dropped by about half in the past four decades, with fish critical to human food suffering some of the greatest declines, WWF warned on September 16, 2015. In a new report, the conservation group cautioned that over-fishing, pollution and climate change had significantly shrunk the size of commercial fish stocks between 1970 and 2010.
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Australia’s Great Barrier Reef avoids an ‘in danger’ rating at UNESCO vote
A 39-year-old man was arrested and charged after he fled his hotel room while under direction to return to Queensland.
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Man flees Australian Covid quarantine using a bed sheet
A Singapore AirLines (L) aircraft lands next to a Jet star aircraft taking flight at Sydney International Airport on June 4, 2021, as the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported the country's economy in the year's first quarter has rebounded to pre-pandemic levels. (Photo by Saeed KHAN / AFP) (Photo by SAEED KHAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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Australian government halves arrival cap, leaving thousands stranded as air fares skyrocket
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She flew from Australia to England for a first date
Chris Hemsworth promotes Australia with his Crocodile Dundee Super Bowl ad
Tourism Australia
Chris Hemsworth really, really wants you to visit Australia
People walk along a pedestrian bridge at the financial business district in Singapore on June 25, 2021. (Photo by Roslan RAHMAN / AFP) (Photo by ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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Singapore wants to stop counting Covid cases. Its roadmap could be a model for other countries
Aerial view of the Great Barrier Reef
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The Great Barrier Reef is in ‘danger,’ UN says. Australia disagrees
Parts of Gippsland are covered in gossamer.
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Australian region covered in cobwebs as spiders flee floods
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How the last Australian convict ship ended up in a small New Zealand town
A pedestrian walks past a marina as the Sky Tower and other buildings stand in the background in Auckland, New Zealand, on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. New Zealands economy will endure a shallower recession than previously expected but the coronavirus pandemic will have a longer impact on the countrys finances, according to government projections. Photographer: Brendon O'Hagan/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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The world’s most livable cities in 2021
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Tasmanian devils born on Australian mainland for first time in 3,000 years
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What it was like on board the Qantas supermoon flight to nowhere
Polar bear cub Hertha plays with a ball after she was given her name on April 2, 2019 at the Tierpark zoo in Berlin. - The female cub was born at the zoo on December 1, 2018. (Photo by John MACDOUGALL / AFP) (Photo credit should read JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Berlin zoo says its polar bear cub’s parents were brother and sister
DARWIN, AUSTRALIA - MAY 15: Qantas flight QF112 touches down at RAAF Base Darwin on May 15, 2021 in Darwin, Australia. The arrival from New Delhi is the first repatriation flight for Australians who have been stranded in India following the lifting of the federal government's ban on flight arrivals from India as the country continues to battle a massive COVID-19 outbreak. Passengers on the flight will do mandatory quarantine at the Howard Springs facility for 14 days before being able to travel on to their home states. (Photo by Steven Hoare/Getty Images)
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First 80 Australians return after controversial travel ban imposed on India
Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison in Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, April 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
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Australian government accused of racism over threats to imprison travelers from India for five years
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The couple who met on the beach at Byron Bay
Passengers wait at the check-in counters for New Zealand flights at Sydney International Airport on April 19, 2021, as Australia and New Zealand opened a trans-Tasman quarantine-free travel bubble.
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Australia opens quarantine-free travel bubble with New Zealand
A ferry sails past the Opera House in Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, April 6, 2021. New Zealand announced the start date for a long-anticipated travel bubble between Australia and New Zealand that will allow people to travel between the two countries without going through quarantine, allowing families to reunite and giving a big boost to the struggling tourism industry will begin April 19. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
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Australia in ‘no hurry’ to open borders to visitors
Stiff and limping, home-sick Welshman Brian Robson, 19, who tried to send himself back to Cardiff from Australia arrived at London Airport this morning stiff and limping after his 96 hours in a crate. He had been given a seat in a Pan American jet airliner from Los Angeles. Brian shows how he sat with his suitcase in the packing case, 18th May 1965.
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The Welshman who mailed himself home from Australia in a box
Lance Karlson was left with the imprint of an octopus tentacle after being attacked in Geographe Bay in Western Australia on March 18.
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Man comes face-to-face with angry octopus in rare attack
Waterfalls tumble over the surface of Uluru in the Northern Territory, Australia, on March 21
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Water cascades down Uluru after heavy rains batter northern Australia
The kitchen is the main gathering place for the house.
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Woman buys traditional house for $8,000, ships it across Indonesia to create Bali dream home
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Lost surfboard turns up 1,700 miles from home
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Qantas launches ‘Mystery Flights’ as Australia extends international travel ban
From Queensland Environment/Twitter: "Our team is now in place at Lake Placid. The search for the crocodile responsible for the attack is now underway."
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‘Remarkably lucky’ Australian man escapes crocodile by prizing jaws off his head
A British Airways Boeing 787 Dreamliner airplane is seen flying over a hotel at Heathrow Airport in west London on January 26, 2021. - The British government is being urged to beef up its borders policy as several countries around the world tighten travel rules over fears of new strains of the novel coronavirus. Ministers have for weeks been mulling whether to require all incoming travellers to isolate in hotels, and a decision is expected within days. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP) (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)
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UK imposes hotel quarantine for travelers from Covid hotspots
Missing man, Robert Weber, was located this morning (Sunday January 24) near a dam around 9am by a property owner.
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Man survives 18 days lost in Australian bush, eating mushrooms and drinking dam water
This picture taken on September 29, 2020 shows Qatar Airlines flight crew members walking past an illuminated sign displaying a message relating to the COVID-19 novel coronavirus at the Sydney International Airport in Sydney. (Photo by David GRAY / AFP) (Photo by DAVID GRAY/AFP via Getty Images)
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In Australia and Taiwan’s fight against Covid, flight crews are proving to be their Achilles heel
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Australian yachtsman rescued after spending hours clinging to a beacon in the ocean
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Surviving a hotel quarantine … with kids
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The true and unadulterated history of the drop bear, Australia’s most deadly – and most fake – predator
BYRON BAY, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 14: Local resident Nick Colby checks the damage due to erosion along the beach side, December 14, 2020 in Byron Bay, Australia. Byron Bay's beaches face further erosion as wild weather and hazardous swells lash the northern NSW coastlines. (Photo by Regi Varghese/Getty Images)
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Australia’s Byron Bay beaches ‘severely eroded’ as heavy rain batters the country
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Australian woman dies trying to take photo at edge of 262-foot cliff
AMANDA MCCORMICK / CATERS NEWS - (PICTURED A KOALA IN A CHRISTMAS TREE) An adorable festive koala had broken into an unsuspecting couple's home and set up camp in their Christmas tree. Jeremy and Amanda McCormick, 44, got the shock of their lives after returning to their home in Adelaide, South Australia, to find a very cute koala happily perched in their Christmas tree. The couple discovered the iconic Aussie animal yesterday [2 DEC] after returning home from work. Their adorable visitor was then taken outside by a koala rescue team and is now happily back outside chewing on gum leaves. SEE CATERS COPY
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Curious koala sneaks into Australian home and climbs Christmas tree
Mandatory Credit: Photo by JAMES ROSS/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (10749059n) General view of wine bottles at Pin Oak Beer & Wine bar in Melbourne, Australia, 19 August 2020. China has launched an investigation into whether Australian winemakers are flooding the country with cheap wine and drowning out local producers. China launches investigation whether Australian wine is flooding Chinese market, Melbourne, Australia - 19 Aug 2020
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Politicians urge people to buy Australian wine in defiance of China
A bushfire burns through Australia's Fraser Island in Queensland.
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Fraser Island, a unique Australian ecosystem, is on fire as parts of the country swelter through record heat wave
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Now there’s another problem for aviation: wasps
Alan Joyce, chief executive officer of Qantas Airways Ltd., listens during a Bloomberg Television interview in Sydney, Australia, on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020. Qantas?is slashing flights in Asia and freezing recruitment in response to falling demand as the coronavirus scares travelers across the region. Photographer: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Qantas boss says passengers will need to be vaccinated for international flights
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I went to Queensland for lunch and was stranded for three months
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Australian airline Qantas celebrates its 100th anniversary
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Resurrecting Cossack: Seaside Australian ghost town poised for major transformation
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Qantas announces ‘flight to somewhere’
RV Falkor holding position on the outside of Ribbon Reef # 5 as ROV SuBastian works its way up the shelf to reveal for the first time ever the origins of the Great Barrier Reef.
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‘Massive’ coral reef taller than the Empire State Building discovered in Australia
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Women on Qatar flight received ‘inappropriate’ treatment after abandoned baby found at Doha Airport
A green sea turtle is flourishing among the corals at lady Elliot island. In the quest to save the Great Barrier Reef, researchers, farmers and business owners are looking for ways to reduce the effects of climate change as experts warn that a third mass bleaching has taken place.
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The Great Barrier Reef has lost half its corals within 3 decades
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What happened on the Qantas flight to nowhere
People visit Bondi beach in Sydney on October 5, 2020.
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Sydney’s Bondi Beach considers privatizing
Tasmanian Devil Lisa, the adventurous one.
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After 3,000 years, Tasmanian devils are returning to Australian mainland
ULURU-KATA TJUTA NATIONAL PARK, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 27: (EDITORS NOTE: Exposure latitude of this image has been digitally increased.) Uluru is seen at as the sun sets on November 27, 2013 in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia. Uluru/ Ayers Rock is a large sandstone formation situated in central Australia approximately 335km from Alice Springs. The site and its surrounding area is scared to the Anangu people, the Indigenous people of this area and is visited by over 250,000 people each year. (Photo by Mark Kolbe/Getty Images)
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Australia asks Google to remove images from top of sacred site Uluru
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Humpback whale is free after swimming out of crocodile-infested river in Australia
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Qantas seven-hour flight to nowhere sells out in 10 minutes
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‘They’ve forgotten us’: Thousands of Australians stranded overseas in the face of government’s stringent border controls
An alligator-skin handbag worth $19,000 was destroyed by Australian customs officials because it lacked an import permit.
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Australian customs officials destroy $19,000 handbag
Wildlife rangers caught the biggest crocodile in years in the Flora River Nature Park in Australia's Northern Territory.
Northern Territory Department of Tourism, Sport and Culture
Massive 14-foot crocodile captured at tourist spot in Australia
The last Qantas Boeing 747 airliner flies over the Sydney Harbour Bridge during its farewell flight to the US on July 22, 2020. - The downturn in the airline industry following travel restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 outbreak forced Qantas to retire its grounded 747s after flying with the Australian carrier for almost 50 years. (Photo by Saeed KHAN / AFP) (Photo by SAEED KHAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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Military escorts, two weeks of quarantine: What it’s like to fly into Australia right now
Priyam and Anuj met online in June and by February they were married. They planned to settle down in Sydney together to build a new life as a couple.
They went to India, now they’re stranded by coronavirus rules set 6,400 miles away
From 9News: A fleet of 10 new River Class ferries and three emerald class ferries, ordered by operator Transdev, are being built in Indonesia and shipped to Australia. As the ferries pass under Camellia Railway Bridge and the Gasworks Bridge between Rydalmere and Parramatta, commuters will need to go down to a lower deck.
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Sydney ordered 10 new ferries with a viewing deck – but they don’t fit under some of the city’s bridges
Victorian prospectors Ethan West, Brent Shannon & Paul West. Brent Shannon and his brother in law, Ethan West, discovered two massive gold nuggets worth over $350,000 in an episode of the fifth season of Discovery Channel's production, Aussie Gold Hunters.
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Two giant gold nuggets worth $250,000 found in Australia
AUSTRALIA - JUNE 01: Leonard Casley, Prince of Oz... In Australia On June, 1998-Prince Leonard & French born Princess Shirley (Photo by Olivier CHOUCHANA/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
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Australia’s oldest micronation, Hutt River is no more thanks to Covid-19
The Wizard and his apprentice Ari Freeman in central Christchurch, New Zealand, on June 2, 2020.
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This New Zealand man gets paid $10,000 a year to be a city’s official wizard
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A rare winter wonderland blanketed Tasmania, and residents couldn’t get enough
Forest, a 12-year-old giraffe at Australia Zoo in Queensland has been confirmed as the world's tallest giraffe, standing at a towering 5.7 m (18 ft 8 in).
Guinness World Records
Meet Forest, the tallest giraffe in the world
Emus are pictured at an ostrich farm, in the village of Chikcha, Tyumen region, Russia on April 30, 2020.
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Australia hotel bans rowdy emus for bad behavior
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Last Qantas 747 flight draws iconic kangaroo in the sky on its final journey from Australia
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Stunning Great Barrier Reef island, once won in a poker game, is up for sale
Police check drivers at a roadblock in suburban Melbourne, Australia, on Thursday, July 2, 2020.
Daniel Pockett/AP
Quarantine hotel sex scandal linked to coronavirus outbreak in Australian city of Melbourne
Aerial view of Cape Bruguieres Channel at high tide (Photo: J. Leach); (below) divers record artefacts in the channel. The first underwater Aboriginal archaeological sites have been discovered off Australia dating back thousands of years ago
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Archaeologists find ancient Aboriginal sites underwater, off the coast of Australia
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The funky nature of authentic Jamaican rum deserves to be left alone
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Fiji plans to create a post-coronavirus travel bubble with New Zealand and Australia
FREMANTLE, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 27: The MV Artania is berthed at the Fremantle Passenger Terminal on March 27, 2020 in Fremantle, Australia. The MV Artania has been given permission to dock in Fremantle, despite having seven passengers infected with COVID-19. The Western Australian government originally turned the ship away amid fears of spreading the coronavirus, but allowed the cruise ship in to port to allow a man off for medical treatment not related to COVID-19. Local authorities are now working to send the remaining healthy passengers home, while the infected passengers remain in self isolation on board. (Photo by Paul Kane/Getty Images)
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After months at sea, the final cruise ship carrying passengers makes it home
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First baby koala born in Australian wildlife park since devastating New South Wales bushfires