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...desert, descendants of the original camel caravans led by Afghan drivers in the 1860s and 1870s. It was these migrant cameleers who helped opened up the continent's arid interior to travelers. The country's most famous train, the Ghan, www.gsr.com.au, is named in their honor. (See pictures of Australia's hidden islands...
...believe the root of the problem lies in the differences between capitalism and communism. I have spent 30 years of my life living on both sides, and I honestly believe that we build our societies using the same good values. We just speak different languages. Yongfeng Shang, Rosebery, Australia...
...think there should always be freedom of the press? Simon Costello, AUSTRALIA...
...good looks and 25¢ will get you a phone call. Australia has a higher proportion of naturally rugged men than any other country on Earth, but combined, its two most recent Prime Ministers, John Howard and Kevin Rudd, have the sex appeal of a church mouse. Who cares? Both have made tough calls--Howard to back the U.S. through thick and thin after 9/11, Rudd to apologize for the treatment of Australia's Aborigines--and they've been stewards of one of the world's longest-lasting economic booms...
...leader. He cites Thatcher, whose sheer bloody determination saw off a hostile intelligentsia, a party that sometimes treated her with all the condescension the British once reserved for clever women, and entrenched interests that fought her economic and social reforms. Before he became Prime Minister in 1996, Australia's Howard had been turfed out as leader of his own party, and when asked if he might ever lead it again, he said such an event would be like "Lazarus with a triple bypass." Howard then went on to win four general elections...