THE AUSTRALIAN

ACROSS 1 Bulloo river town 1,100km west of Brisbane (12) 9 The Seekers’ bass player, … Guy (5) 10 Bill Shorten’s Manager of Opposition Business (4,5) 11 Koala, wombat or kangaroo (9) 12 Bali Nine member sentenced to life imprisonment, … Lawrence (5) 13 Scott McGregor’s makeover show,

…for Improvement (4) 14 Song performed by John Williamson at Steve Irwin’s funeral (4,4) 18 Town and reservoir SE of Melbourne (8) 19 The Restless Years and Homeand Away actor, … Kants (4) 23 Bart Cummings’ Randwick stables, Leilani … (5) 25 Town serving the Gove bauxite mine (9) 26 Person in power (coll) (4,5) 27 Belgian-born singer whose real name is Wouter De Backer (5) 28 Inlet near Nelson Bay, NSW (4,8) DOWN 1 1987 Paul Kelly song about a young couple’s reconciliation (2,3,4) 2 Air Supply hit, ……of Love (3,3) 3 2003 Sam Worthington and David Wenham film, …Square (6) 4 NSW flour-milling town and ethanol company (8) 5 Pygmy rock wallaby and old NT uranium mine (8) 6 Lachlan and Sarah Murdoch’s daughter (5) 7 Mining magnate and United Australia Party leader, Clive … (6)

8 Big Brother star, Sara-Marie … (6) 15 2013 The Farmer Wants a Wife series (4,5) 16 Spotted quoll (5,3) 17 Helen Morse film, ……Hanging

Rock (6,2) 18 ABC Patrol Boat star, Robert … (6) 20 Split Enz keyboard player, Eddie … (6) 21 Mythical swamp monster (6) 22 Uranium deposit near Darwin, Rum … (6) 24 Under-18 dance, Blue Light … (5)

Saturday’s solution

ACROSS: 1. Bruce Beresford 10. Mackerras 11. Maeve 12. APIA 13. Rebound Ace 15. Aurelius 16. Woman’s 19. Slouch 20. McLellan 23. Macpherson 25. Pugh 27. Erana 28. Van Iersel 29. Sulphur-crested. DOWN: 2. Ricciardo 3. Chez 4. Barbecue 5. Risdon 6. Simon Bowen 7. Omega 8. Diemen’s 9. Impala 14. Blackheath 17. AllAussie 18. Schooner 19. Samuels 21. Nihill 22. Drover 24. Crawl 26. Less.