THE AUSTRALIAN

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1 Erinsborough locality of Neighbours (6,6) 10 Atherton Tablelands town with Qld’s highest pub (9) 11 River dammed to form Lake Keepit, west of Tamworth (5) 12 Shannon Noll’s Lachlan River home town in central NSW (10)

13 Sunrise host, David … (4) 15 Sunshine Coast hinterland town near Woodford (6) 17 Nickname of Central Australia’s largest town (3,5) 18 Groote Eylandt township (8) 20 The “Marrickville Mauler” boxer, Jeff … (6) 21 Peak union group, formed in 1927 (1,1,1,1) 22 Joliffe’s cartoon, …Tribe (10) 26 NSW Central Coast town (5) 27 1938 jingle: ILike…Jelly (9) 28 Mary Durack’s Kimberley history,

Kingsin…… (5,7)

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2 Graeme Blundell’s 1973 film, …Purple (5) 3 Chips Rafferty’s 1960 shearers movie, The… (10)

4 Y oungEinstein director and star, … Serious (5) 5 Sam Neill and Patrick Warburton’s 2000 film set at the Parkes Observatory (3,4) 6 Little bent-wing bat colony near Rockhampton, Mt. … (4) 7 Musical-sounding mountain in the Gold Coast hinterland (9) 8 Olympic and Australian rules TV commentator (5,8) 9 WA and 2005-13 Test batsman (7,6) 14 Reservoir on the 11-across near Gunnedah (4,6) 16 Paul Hogan’s 1994 movie with Beverly D’Angelo, …Jack (9) 19 Tamworth country music awards, Golden … (7) 23 Fashion designer and ex-SBS chair, … Zampatti (5) 24 SevenLittleAustralians star, Leonard … (5) 25 Australia’s first surviving quads, born in Bellingen in 1950 (4)