THE AUSTRALIAN

ACROSS

1 Pumpkin variety first grown in Beaudesert (10,4) 10 Australian territory since 1947, … & McDonald Islands (5) 11 Hungarian-born boxer who fought Mohammed Ali in 1975 (3,6) 12 Venomous red-brown snake (10) 13 Slang name for a sixpence (4) 15 Rudd’s Broadband Minister, Stephen … (6) 16 Hawkesbury river ferry, Australia’s oldest (8)

18 RatsofTobruk star, Chips … (8) 20 Totally drunk (coll) (6) 23 Brother of the Bee Gees who died in 1988 (4) 24 Nine-times Bathurst champion, killed in a rally in 2006 (5,5) 26 Atherton tablelands town (9) 27 East Timorese leader Xanana Gusmao’s former wife, Kirsty … (5) 28 Pacific nation where Australian police were sent in 2003 (7,7)

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2 Aboriginal inventor on the $50 note, David … (7) 3 2003 World Cup Wallabies coach and England rugby coach from 2015 (5,5) 4 First aid group, … … Ambulance (2,4) 5 Peter Weir’s 1974 horror comedy film, TheCarsThat…… (3,5) 6 Paul McDermott’s ‘80s group, … Anthony Allstars (4) 7 Orange and yellow-flowered pest plant (7) 8 1854 miner’s rebellion at Ballarat, Victoria (6,8) 9 Wiggle Anthony Field’s ‘80s pub rock band (3,11) 14 NSW Health Minister and Belinda Neal’s husband, John … … (5,5) 17 General who oversaw Darwin’s rebuilding after Cyclone Tracy, Alan … (8) 19 Canberra-Goulburn highway (7) 21 Former whaling station near Eden, … Bay (7) 22 Songsofa Sentimental Bloke author, C. J. … (6) 25 2004 Olympic silver and bronze diving medallist, Matthew … (4)