THE AUSTRALIAN

ACROSS

1 NSW headland near Southwest Rocks, named by Captain Cook (5,4) 10 Home Hill’s twin town (3) 11 Graham Kennedy’s 1957-70 TV variety show, ……Tonight (2,9) 12 Hawkesbury town with Australia’s oldest church (8) 13 Desert in the centre of the NT (6) 15 1988 Olympic marathon runner-up and 1986-90 Commonwealth champion, … Ondieki (4) 16 Coal mine near Clermont in central Qld (5,5) 18 Billy Connolly’s psychologist wife, host of ShrinkRap, Pamela … (10) 19 Mining town west of Whyalla, Iron … (4) 21 Kylie Minogue’s nickname, “The Singing …” (6) 22 Hunter Valley town, just north of Muswellbrook (8) 24 2000-2003 host of the ABC sports talk show, TheFat (4,7) 25 Hazel Hawke’s daughter and biographer, … Pieters (3) 26 Outback NSW town, between Bourke and 14-down (9)

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2 Toni Collette’s 1993 movie set in Porpoise Spit (7,7) 3 Ex-Qld ALP Secretary and Anna Bligh’s Chief of Staff, Mike … (6) 4 County covering the Sydney metro area (10) 5 Sydney’s … Beach, where Home

andAway is filmed (4) 6 Rupert Murdoch’s mother, who died in 2012, aged 103 (4,9) 7 Sydney suburb, home of the St. George Dragons (7)

8 Bands tand host and 1957-2002 Channel 9 Sydney newsreader (5,9) 9 The first Aboriginal Senator, in 1971 (7,6) 14 NSW town near the SA and Qld borders (10) 17 Divinyls singer and Little Pattie’s cousin, … Amphlett (7) 20 World’s largest sand island (6) 23 Site of the 2002 Bali bombings (4)