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		<title>Irish Backpacker Elaine Morrow Drowns on Whitsundays Diving Trip</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>00dangermouse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 23-year-old Irish traveller has drowned during an introductory scuba diving trip off Langford Island, in the Whitsundays. National University of Ireland graduate Elaine Morrow, who was three months into her Australian travels, did not surface from the dive on Monday, which was two days into a three-day trip aboard the boat Summertime, operated by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tumbrella.com.au&amp;blog=6694430&amp;post=1799&amp;subd=tumbrella&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Skinny Dipping to Nightlife. NZ&#8217;s Best, as Voted by Backpackers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 04:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>00dangermouse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re planning a trip to New Zealand but aren&#8217;t too sure on some of the essentials, you know, like where&#8217;s the best place to have a beer, eat a pie, even where to go skinny dipping, then look no further. Tour company Kiwi Experience has just completed an online poll of their customers as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tumbrella.com.au&amp;blog=6694430&amp;post=1654&amp;subd=tumbrella&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crackdown on Sydney Free Camping</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 03:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>00dangermouse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Randwick City Council in Sydney has vowed to crack down on backpackers camping illegally in its beachside carparks. New South Wales Police and council rangers swooped on the area between Clovelly and Malabar at 6.30am earlier this month, ordering the occupants of 45 vans – about 100 backpackers in total – to move on. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tumbrella.com.au&amp;blog=6694430&amp;post=1641&amp;subd=tumbrella&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Backpacker Mag Launches Miss TNT Contest</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 02:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>00dangermouse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leading Aussie backpacker publication TNT Magazine has launched a search for a female backpacker to become its first ever Miss TNT. The mag has explained it is looking for &#8220;the coolest, most travel-obsessed hottie in Oz&#8221;. The overall winner, crowned later this year, would receive Aussie travel prizes as well as a modelling contract. However, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tumbrella.com.au&amp;blog=6694430&amp;post=1524&amp;subd=tumbrella&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Backpack Into Neighbours</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 01:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>00dangermouse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One dedicated British fan of Neighbours is to play a backpacker visiting Ramsay Street to celebrate the show’s  25th anniversary. After what is expected to be a fiercely-fought contest, the winning actress will be flown Down Under to play the role of Poppy Rogers, who became friends with Mal Kennedy while he backpacked around Europe, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tumbrella.com.au&amp;blog=6694430&amp;post=1409&amp;subd=tumbrella&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Airlie Beach hostel manager: &#8216;Backpackers aren&#8217;t scavenging for food&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://tumbrella.com.au/2010/03/24/airlie-beach-hostel-manager-backpackers-arent-scavenging-for-food/</link>
		<comments>http://tumbrella.com.au/2010/03/24/airlie-beach-hostel-manager-backpackers-arent-scavenging-for-food/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>terrafirma87</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A British newspaper report alleging backpackers in Airlie Beach have been forced to scavenge food out of bins in the wake of Cyclone Ului has been refuted by Beaches Backpackers general manager Nathan Fleming. The UK Daily Telegraph reported on Monday that backpackers &#8220;were left to fend for themselves&#8221; following the cyclone. In the article, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tumbrella.com.au&amp;blog=6694430&amp;post=1371&amp;subd=tumbrella&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Outback life: when camels attack</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>terrafirma87</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Animal rights campaigners have labelled the Northern Territory government “trigger happy” over its plans to shoot 3,000 thirsty camels that have laid siege to a remote Outback town. Officials argue the situation has become critical and have obtained air clearance to undertake the culling from Monday to stop the marauding camels terrorising Docker River, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tumbrella.com.au&amp;blog=6694430&amp;post=1265&amp;subd=tumbrella&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Koalas soon to be extinct&#8217;, say experts</title>
		<link>http://tumbrella.com.au/2009/12/04/koalas-soon-to-be-extinct-say-experts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>terrafirma87</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of Australia’s most popular animals could be extinct within 30 years, according to campaigners from the Australia Koala Foundation. According to their findings the koala population has more than halved since 2003 and may be entirely wiped out if drastic action is not taken to protect them. The conservationists, whose research is based on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tumbrella.com.au&amp;blog=6694430&amp;post=1257&amp;subd=tumbrella&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Backpacker Jamie Neale &#8216;Worse Than Robert Mugabe&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://tumbrella.com.au/2009/10/24/backpacker-jamie-neale-worse-than-robert-mugabe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>00dangermouse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[British backpacker Jamie Neale, who made global headlines after getting lost in the Blue Mountains for 12 days, has expressed how shocked he is at the level of public anger directed towards him. In an interview with The Daily Telegraph he discussed a recent poll of the world&#8217;s most hated people, in Zoo Weekly. Jamie, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tumbrella.com.au&amp;blog=6694430&amp;post=1224&amp;subd=tumbrella&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>German Backpacker Missing in New South Wales Bush</title>
		<link>http://tumbrella.com.au/2009/10/13/german-backpacker-missing-in-new-south-wales-bush/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dumbrella</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A German bushwalker has been reported missing after he was last seen yesterday afternoon in bushland of New South Wales’ New England area. The 24-year-old German national was bushwalking yesterday with three friends at Bald Rock in Boonoo Boonoo National Park, when about 3pm he separated from the group. He was last seen wearing shorts [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tumbrella.com.au&amp;blog=6694430&amp;post=1200&amp;subd=tumbrella&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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