January 26th - Three great travel options on Australia Day
Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast
The Independent
3.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
On Australia Day – a time of contemplation more than celebration these days – I've sought advice on three great travel options from Tony Wheeler, co-founder of Lonely Planet.
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| 0:00.0 | Do you belong here? |
| 0:03.0 | Next to me, about to jump into the sea on an army co-steering expedition. |
| 0:08.0 | What's your gut saying? |
| 0:10.0 | Walk away from the edge? |
| 0:12.0 | Or jump in and join a team that we buy your side for life? |
| 0:19.0 | Still listening? and join a team that we buy your side for life. |
| 0:26.7 | Still listening, you belong here. |
| 0:28.5 | Army, recruiting now. |
| 0:29.8 | Search Army jobs. |
| 0:40.7 | Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast with me Simon Calder. |
| 0:47.2 | It's Thursday the 26th of January, 2023, which means that it is Australia Day, |
| 0:50.7 | the official National Day of Australia. |
| 0:53.6 | And I was going to say celebrates. It marks the day in 1788 when the first fleet arrived |
| 1:00.7 | at Sydney Cove and effectively set up what would become British sovereignty over this vast nation. |
| 1:14.9 | But of course there were many First Nations peoples there already. And since then the society, the culture, the life that they enjoyed has been |
| 1:26.0 | absolutely transformed. |
| 1:28.1 | And I think most people would say far, far, far for the worst. |
| 1:32.2 | And so therefore, many people these days will be marking Australia Day by really contemplating |
| 1:40.7 | the damage done to the Aboriginal people by the settlement rather than saying, |
| 1:47.6 | hooray, look, here we are, we created Australia, aren't we clever? |
| 1:53.2 | Now, I still think it is worth talking about what a superb location it is for the traveller, not least because right now it's |
| 2:04.5 | the bleak midwinter in Britain and it is high summer in southern Australia. And so I called on |
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