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On 26 January 1788, Captain Arthur Phillip unfurled the British flag at Sydney Cove. It was eighteen years since the explorer Cook had claimed Australia for England, and Phillip had come out from the Mother Country with eleven ships and 1,000 people to set up a penal colony. Sydney's beginnings...

Introduction Australia-a great and ancient land mass, washed by three oceans and stretching almost from the equator to the roaring forties. A land of diversity, of contrasts and contradictions that mock the phrase 'typically Australian' and the untutored visions of rolling plains supporting gum...

The microwave oven is a welcome boon to today's busy housewife whose family eats at different times and to business people who do not have a lot of time in which to prepare meals. It is quick, clean, cool and simple to operate. With it you can produce a wide range of delicious dishes in minutesfrom...