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I leave a sunburnt country

After six years, the BBC’s Australia correspondent bids farewell to ‘the Antipodes’

27 July 2013

9:00 AM

27 July 2013

9:00 AM

My compatriots have not always been kind in their assessment of your country. ‘When I think of Melbourne, I vomit!’ wrote Robert Louis Stevenson, rather cruelly. ‘Everyone complains of the high rents and difficulty in procuring a house,’ observed Charles Darwin, in a statement that foreshadowed a thousand eastern suburbs dinner party conversations.

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