THE AUSTRALIAN
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Les Hiddins’ nature series,
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The … … … (4,6,3)
9 Julia Gillard’s old electorate in
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Mary Donaldson’s mother-in-law, Queen … (9)
11 Early 1900s athlete who represented Australia in three sports (5,5)
12 Jared in All Saints, Ben … (4)
14 Assistant (slang) (3-5)
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16 2011 prime ministerial comedy,
… … With Julia (2,4)
18 Tasmania’s … Mt-Lake St Clair
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National park (6)
19 Bob Hawke’s second wife,
Blanche … (8)
22 Phar Lap’s jockey, Jim … (4)
23 Fruit town near Manjimup, WA (10)
26 Savage Garden’s 1996 hit,
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… … .. and Back (2,3,4)
27 Intelligence facility near Darwin,
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… Bay Receiving Station (5)
28 Kevin Rudd’s Finance Minister (7,6) 10
DOWN
1 WA islands, site of 1950s nuclear
tests, Monte … (5)
2 Inner Sydney suburb near
Darlinghurst (5,5)
3 T-shirt wearing ‘80s coach of
Geelong and the Sydney Swans (3,5)
4 Ripper, pearler (slang) (6)
5 Indigenous people of the Sydney
area (4)
6 NSW Southern Highlands town (9)
7 Regular Blankety Blanks panellist,
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… Brown (7)
8 We Won’t Run singer, Sarah … (6)
13 Billy Connolly’s psychologist wife,
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Pamela … (10)
15 Melbourne suburb on Port Phillip
Bay (9)
17 Town and reservoir SE of
Melbourne (8)
18 Site of the Parliament House in
Canberra, … Hill (7)
20 7.30 political editor, Laura … (6)
21 The Box star, … Behets (6)
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24 Steele Rudd’s first Dad and Dave
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book … … Selection (2,3)
25 Abbie Cornish in Elizabeth: The
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Golden Age (4)
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