THE AUSTRALIAN

ACROSS

1 Dutch sailor who left a pewter plate at Shark Bay in 1616, Dirk … (6) 5 Pete Murray album including the hit SoBeautiful (6) 10 Painter of gold-rush scenes such as TheCricketers (7,8) 11 Elaine Lee in Number96, … Collins (4) 12 Graham Kennedy’s InMelbourne Tonight sidekick (4,6) 15 1948 Invincibles wicket-keeper, Don … (6) 16 Mental As Anything song, …Warriors (7) 19 Introduced sporting fish, … trout (7) 20 Labor WA senator defeated in the 2014 recount, … Pratt (6) 23 Water between the NT and New Guinea (7,3) 24 Tom Croydon in BlueHeelers, John … (4) 26 Slim Dusty’s trucking song (6,2,3,4) 28 Insiders host, … Cassidy (6) 29 Bird on the SA flag, … shrike (6)

DOWN

2 Austen Tayshus’ 1983 comedy hit (11) 3 The Melbourne Cricket Ground’s nickname (3,1) 4 Australia’s floral emblem, … wattle (6) 5 Melbourne suburb, Upper … Gully (8) 6 Annual Sydney agricultural fair, Royal … … (6,4) 7 Ranger uranium mining company (1,1,1) 8 Southern Brisbane suburb, Mt. … (7) 9 2008-2013 Wallabies coach, Robbie … (5) 13 Darwin newspaper, Sunday… (11) 14 Newcastle’s main hospital, named after the 1795-1800 NSW Governor (4,6) 17 Phone company that bought Crazy John’s (8) 18 Camden Haven town, near Port Macquarie (7) 21 Arnott’s cream biscuit, Monte … (5) 22 Road Safety awareness campaign (4,2) 25 Actor whose dogs were threatened with euthanasia by Barnaby Joyce, Johnny .. (4) 27 Fran in StrictlyBallroom, … Carides (3)