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Top 8 Reasons for Moving to Sydney

Sydney Opera House and harbour bridge I first came to Sydney Australia from Malaysia in February 1982 to attend high school and university. I stayed for 5 years as an overseas student on a student visa until...

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Famous Aborigines

These are eight Australian and Tasmanian Aboriginals that have made a lasting impression on me with their determination to pursue reconciliation of Aborigines and whites through government, first contact interactions, sports, music, fine arts, writing, and acting.

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Interesting Olympic Moments - Sink or Swim, Eric "The Eel" Moussambani

As the countdown to the Beijing Olympic Games winds down, I can't help but reflect on the Olympic Games of the past. In an effort to catalogue some of these reflections I have compiled a list of the greatest...

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Amazing Australia: Travel to the deep down under

Amazing Australia: My travel to the deep down under So what did I discover when I went to Australia? The capital is Canberra and not Sydney Part of their legacies and history are the aborigines and...

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Sydney Australia the best parts

When we talk about Sydney, we about a city that has got some really beautiful places to see, visit and enjoy.  For instance if we look at Balmoral which is on the lower northern shoreline of Sydney it is a...

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Northern Spirit FC

Northern Spirit Football Club were a now defunct soccer club that competed in the National Soccer League (NSL) in Australia for 5 seasons. The team was based in North Sydney, Australia and was formed in 1997....

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Princess Mary of Denmark

The Story of how Mary became a Princess is one of pure fairytale. The truth as they say is often stranger than fiction. Prince Frederik of Denmark was visiting Australia to compete in a yachting challenge of...

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More on volunteering at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games

Now where was I that's right yes I was outside the Regent Hotel and an entourage of car turned up again emblazoned with Olympic games authorisation signage. And guess who pops out of the middle vehicle. None...

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Olympic Games Gold stories...

Australia found out that we would host the summer games of 2000 in September 1993. This was a huge coup. The winning of the bid revitalised Sydney from the word go. Each time I visited Sydney from Queensland...

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Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Volunteers Nine years on...more trivia.

  IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch declared at the Closing Ceremony, "I am proud and happy to proclaim that you have presented to the world the best Olympic Games ever." It has been nine years this...

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