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      <title>Australia — a friend&#039;s guide</title>
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    <title>Sydney</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Sydney — harbour city, eastern beaches, the coastal walks. Built around the world’s largest natural harbour. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 00:43:13 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Tasmania</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Tasmania — the island state, S of Melbourne across Bass Strait. Size of Ireland, ~570k people. 40%+ national park or World Heritage. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 00:41:02 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Brisbane &amp; Southeast Queensland</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Brisbane (“Brizzy”) — subtropical, river-coiled, low-key. Australia’s third city, now hosting 2032 Olympics. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 00:40:56 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Adelaide &amp; South Australia</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Adelaide — the most underrated capital. Small, gracious, planned, ringed by parklands. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 00:40:50 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Melbourne</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Melbourne — cultural capital. More European than Sydney; colder, denser, more about food and culture than harbour. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 00:40:44 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Cairns &amp; Tropical North Queensland</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Cairns — gateway to where the Great Barrier Reef meets the Daintree Rainforest. Two World Heritage sites side by side; nowhere else on earth like it. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 00:40:38 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Perth &amp; Western Australia&#039;s southwest</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Perth — most isolated capital on earth. Closer to Jakarta than Sydney. Swan River, white-sand beaches, Mediterranean climate. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 00:40:31 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Top End — Darwin, Kakadu &amp; Litchfield</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Northern third of the Northern Territory — tropical, monsoonal, wild. Darwin is closer to Jakarta than Sydney. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 00:40:24 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Uluṟu &amp; the Red Centre</title>
    <link>https://australia.groeney.com/uluru</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ The arid heart of the continent. Uluṟu is the icon; Kata Tjuṯa is its equally extraordinary, less-photographed neighbour. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 00:40:13 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The Kimberley</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ The Kimberley — northwestern corner. Three times the size of England, ~40,000 people. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 00:40:07 GMT</pubDate>
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