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Weekend Economists Down Under May 23-26, 2014 [View all]
Last edited Sat May 24, 2014, 08:02 AM - Edit history (1)

I don't know much about Australia.
Given my abhorrence of heat, my reluctance to get on an airplane for any length of time, let alone two days, and my refusal to buy a passport at the outrageous prices current (not discounting the fact that my country might not even let me leave, for some insanely paranoid reason to be disclosed in 60 years or so when all the idiots are dead, or LET ME BACK IN, OR JUST RANDOMLY JAIL), I probably never will see it in person.

No offense, mates, but there are places I would suffer to visit. Australia hasn't made that list, yet. Give me a good reason and that could change.
But in the meanwhile, let us gather what intelligence we may on the Land Down Under....
The Crocodile Dundee movie series is as close as most of us will get to an actual tour of Oz, as it is also known. We will include some of that, too.
Ayers Rock (Uluru) Sunrise, Northern Territory, Australia
http://www.chockstonephotos.com/


http://www.markgray.com.au/

FOR TV TOURS OF AUSTRALIA, VISIT THIS WEBSITE: http://tours-tv.com/en/australia_landscape
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