THE AUSTRALIAN
ACROSS 1 Brisbane Lions coach who won premierships in 2001-03 (5,8) 10 Soldier whose donkey carried the wounded from Gallipoli (7) 11 Kevin Rudd’s home town, near Nambour (7) 12 Eastern part of the Top End, … Land (6) 13 South Sydney NRL footballer (8) 15 Poet … … Murray, who wrote the
Oath of Allegiance (3,1) 16 Mythical landmark beyond which lies the Outback (5,5) 19 West Coast Eagles star, banned by the AFL for a year in 2007 (3,7) 20 Talent show won by Wes Carr in 2008, Australian … (4) 23 SBS’s first newsreader, George … (8) 25 ‘Father of the Australian wheat industry’, William … (6)
27 Wheel of Fortune co-host, … Xenides, who died in 2010 (7) 28 Aboriginal TV network, based in Alice Springs (7) 29 Stars on the Australian flag (8,5) DOWN 2 1976 Australian Open tennis champion, Mark … (9) 3 IOC vice-president, and 1956 400m relay silver medallist, Kevan … (6) 4 Colette …, Doreen in Prisoner (4) 5 1980s Shape I’m In band, Jo Jo Zep and … … (3,7) 6 Sydney Olympic site, … Bay (8) 7 Former 60 Minutes and Sunday host, Jana … (5) 8 GWS Giants star, … Folau (6) 9 Liberal MP for Mackellar, Bronwyn … (6)
14 E Street star, … … Cook (6-4) 17 Rolf Boldrewood’s 1884 novel
Robbery … … (5,4) 18 Cape York Aboriginal community, … River (8) 19 Cathy Freeman’s former manager and partner, Nic … (6) 21 Shirley Gilroy in A Country
Practice, … Desmond (6) 22 1980s blonde Sydney Swans star, Warwick … (6) 24 Lismore dairy company (5) 26 Buddhist temple near Wollongong, Nan … (4)