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Re: How's Australia day-to-day? (government, commerce, etc.)

by chrisj 09 May 2012

+if you are as ignorant as most Ozzies plus most people who go there as tourists+ Stereotyping a whole nation, and the secondary group…
RE: Trans-Australia Road Trip (Sydney to Perth)

by superdog87 12 April 2012

So what kind of standards will I be looking at in the roadhouses? I'm willing to lower my expectations, but I certainly do not want bedbugs…
RE: Trans-Australia Road Trip (Sydney to Perth)

by Harry_Ramsden 12 April 2012

Just had my post swallowed by the computer ... damn. Any reason for Wagga? Pleasent if boiring town with decent accommodation and eating.…
RE: Trans-Australia Road Trip (Sydney to Perth)

by superdog87 12 April 2012

I won't be the only driver if I go on this trip. There will be at least 2 drivers. And I have looked at google maps, and apparently, Sydney…
RE: Trans-Australia Road Trip (Sydney to Perth)

by ranjon 12 April 2012

Unless you have a particular reason for heading down to Wagga and across to Mildura you ought to go via Broken Hill and on to Port Augusta…
RE: Sydney to Uluru via Mildura and Coober Pedy

by interestexplorer 28 March 2012

I have just completed another googlemap enquiry to find out about distances. I don't think we fully appreciate the distances, and just…
RE: Sydney to Uluru via Mildura and Coober Pedy

by Harry_Ramsden 27 March 2012

No need for sat phone. We had coverage pretty much everywhere out there, and certainly in every town. As OP has driven to Adelaide I suspec…
RE: Sydney to Uluru via Mildura and Coober Pedy

by interestexplorer 26 March 2012

We'll have to have a re-look at the Broken Hill route then. We would have taken Day 1 Sydney to Broken Hill via Dubbo and Cobar as…
RE: Sydney to Uluru via Mildura and Coober Pedy

by Harry_Ramsden 26 March 2012

We've been to Broken Hill and back, via both those routes, and there's not much between them. Both involve very long, very boring drives…
Sydney to Uluru via Mildura and Coober Pedy

by interestexplorer 25 March 2012

We are planning a road trip from Sydney to Uluru - something we have not done before. We only have eight days to complete the road trip…
RE: Bendigo to Cobar Most Interesting Route (inspired by Groo)

by Groo 21 March 2012

No. I never sold him anything, and he was on the lookout for cattle killed on the Barrier Highway. My informant was a mate who drove coaches…
RE: Will China One Day Colonize Australia?

by ranjon 17 March 2012

#29 nearly seems I'll win you over to mandarin speaking soon enough flobs for with " I don't know about that - there's plenty of water…
RE: Need some suggestions

by ElsieKay 04 March 2012

I have done the Hay Plain route a couple of times (and we do the whole run in a day) whereas English Granny (wants to stay put at our…
Need some suggestions

by ElsieKay 03 March 2012

My mother in law is coming out to Australia for a four week holiday and we want to drive her to Adelaide to visit her sister (she refuses…
RE: Have a month to travel from Warrnambool to Syd

by Commissioner 01 March 2012

There's a mini-bus three days a week between Broken Hill and Mildura. Leaves at 3:20pm from Mildura, arrives 6:45pm BH. Monday, Weds,…
RE: Have a month to travel from Warrnambool to Syd

by ranjon 01 March 2012

You're somewhat restricted in relying on public transport and from Gippsland for instance it'll be either continue on around the coast…
Have a month to travel from Warrnambool to Syd

by glache 01 March 2012

Hi everyone, I've got a month off (Fri week to Easter weekend) to travel from Warrnambool to Syd. I've done the Great Ocean Rd, I've been…
RE: Wetness

by ranjon 01 March 2012

I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons…
Re: Australian politics

by Drovers_Dog 29 February 2012

I can't make head nor tails of any of the seepage above but I do however (and probably for the first time) agree with at least one point.…
RE: Australian politics

by ranjon 29 February 2012

Taking your last sentence first Justin, sometimes I think parties, well in this case more so the Labor party always thinks for some reason…
RE: Thank God Public Servants are not romantic

by Hippoh 15 February 2012

Going to the Private Bin was your first mistake, eaw. Terribubble. As bad as going to 'The Moose' is today, or Mooseheads, as it used…
RE: Best route Sydney to Darwin

by Ozziegiraffe 28 January 2012

The main problem with the route in #3 above is that you either miss Alice Springs and Uluru, or would need to make a turn south at the…
RE: Best route Sydney to Darwin

by ranjon 28 January 2012

There are a few options for you based on either heading west and then north or north and then west. ie. you could head west towards Adelaid…
Re: suggesttions for 5 weeks in july

by graymare 26 January 2012

I think you will be able to fit in most of your hoped for areas if you fly some of the longer stretches. There are few "hidden gems" off…
Re: Around Sydney

by graymare 20 January 2012

Just wondering why you chose the cities you did----Melbourne or the Gold Coast. If it was because of cheaper airfares, you can probably…