THE AUSTRALIAN
ACROSS 1 Bernard Fanning’s Lost and
Running band (12) 10 Menzies’ proposed name for the dollar (5) 11 Lismore band unearthed by JJJ (9) 12 George Miller’s animated penguin movie (5,4)
13 The Bachelor host, … Gunsberg (5) 15 Federal consumer watchdog (1,1,1,1) 16 Slim Dusty’s pub in Duncan, the Town &… (7) 20 Geoffrey Rush’s character in Quills, … de Sade (7) 21 Joy Boys singer, Col … (4) 25 Shrub with winged seeds (5)
26 Blabbermouth children’s author, Morris … (9) 27 Mike Gore’s Hope island development, …. Cove (9) 29 Sydney Festival with coloured lights projected on buildings (5) 30 World Heritage National Park in NSW and Qld (6,6) DOWN 2 Melbourne Storm’s home ground until 2009 (7,4) 3 NRL Player of the Year medal (5,1) 4 Paul Hogan’s Sydney Harbour Bridge job (6) 5 David Caesar’s 2001 movie, or a colloquial term for TV (5,3) 6 WA river that reaches the sea at Carnarvon (8) 7 Summer of the Seventeenth Doll cane cutters, Barney and … (3) 8 Melbourne suburb along Commercial Road (7)
9 Mysterious Girl singer who married Jordan, Peter … (5) 14 Skyhooks’ 1974 hit (6,5) 17 Rich colonial landowner (8) 18 Victorian town destroyed in 2009 bushfires (8) 19 The Late Show comedian and Rob Sitch’s wife, Jane … (7) 22 Luna Park ride destroyed by fire in 1979, killing seven, … Train (5) 23 Ex- Sunrise weatherman and Family Feud host, Grant … (6) 24 Today weatherman, … Jacobs (6) 28 One of the ‘Big Four’ banks (1,1,1)