Word: australian
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...prohibit paid work, but many foreigners flout the rule, and school administrators, eager for the cachet that comes with expatriate instructors, tend to turn a blind eye. Thailand is, however, a favored playground of globetrotting drifters. "You never really know who you're talking to in Bangkok," says an Australian teacher in St. Joseph's English immersion program who met Karr during his brief tenure there. "We've all got a past...
...Beck's interest in militaria started during his wartime childhood in Townsville, where there was a huge Allied military base. "The Australian Army had a camp and firing range on our farm," he says. In the 1950s, while Australians tried to forget about the war, Beck set about ensuring that they wouldn't, buying military vehicles and equipment at knockdown prices. "It's preserving history,'' he says of the collection, which he and his wife Barbara opened to the public...
...curtains drawn against the daylight didn't ring a warning bell, the grilles covering the windows should have. But after 300 km in the glare of the Western Australian sun, the only thing to do is ditch the car, head for the nearest pub and dive into a frosty beer. Dive is the word. Up the steps, through a wooden door into a neon-lit room with battered furniture, dog racing on a couple of TVs, a pool table in an alcove illuminated by the cold blue light used in public toilets to discourage intravenous drug users...
...East Kimberley, as in many remote places, Australian Rules is a bonding force. At Halls Creek, Centennial Oval bursts into life on winter Saturdays, as footy fans from outlying areas make the trip to town. "Aboriginal people live, breathe and sleep football," says Warren Greatorex, an assistant coach and player with the Halls Creek Hawks. "Football keeps small communities going." The Hawks play in a bush league of seven, with three teams from Kununurra and one each from Wyndham, Timber Creek (N.T.) and Warmun. In these parts, says Derby-born Greatorex, indigenous players are athletic and naturally skilful. In spite...
...seemingly sleepy hamlet-nestled in mulga scrub on an uncharacteristic hill above the Nullarbor, close to the South Australian border-Eucla has a work ethic that could put many city folk to shame. As well as an industrious roadhouse, police station, meteorological office and quarantine center, the 50-resident village is a hub for shark fishing and starling shooting (the bird is considered a pest in Western Australia). "We're either sleeping or working," says local mechanic Rodney Fowler, 60, proudly wearing his eucla spirit of the desert windcheater...