THE AUSTRALIAN

ACROSS

1 Peter Falconio’s murderer (7,7) 10 SA opal-mining town near Olympic Dam (9)

11 Town and lake 100km west of Ballarat (5)

12 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympic 100m freestyle champion, Dawn … (6)

13 Sydney suburb where Prince Alfred was shot in 1868 (8)

16 Country singer, the first Australian at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry (3,7)

17 Musical that brought Marcia Hines to Australia (4)

19 Australian mainland’s most northerly point, Cape … (4)

20 John Howard’s Defence Minister in the “Phonecard” affair (5,5)

22 Australia’s biggest iron ore miner (3,5)

23 Newspaper writer (coll) (6)

25 Rainforest tree used in cooking and for its essential oils, … myrtle (5)

27 Bearded Olympic cyclist, investigated for drug importation in 2004 (4,5)

28 Commonly caged species of cockatoo (7-7)

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2 Largest living marsupial (3,8)

3 First female House of Representatives member, in 1943, … … Lyons (4,4)

4 NSW town and waterfall between Armidale and Dorrigo (4) 5 Waterways near Port Stephens, NSW (5,5)

6 GoodNewsWeek team captain, Mikey … (6)

7 Dinkum …, the truth (coll) (3)

8 Cash&Company star, Penne … … (9-5)

9 1980s TV series starring John Wood as a magistrate (9,5)

14 Industrial suburb in southern Brisbane (6,5)

15 Geelong newspaper, Australia’s second-oldest (10)

18 Mounted colonial police officers (8)

21 Golfer, Corinne … (6)

24 National anthem from 1984, AdvanceAustralia… (4)

26 MadMax star, … Gibson (3)