Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder.

Wish you were here.

Follow the price of Paradise Now, wherever you listen to podcasts.

This is the Friends of History Debating Society.

I'm John Bachelors with Jeremy Zuckus.

He's in New South Wales teaching me Australia. Many things about Australia are immediately

recognizable. Gidee, for example. However, the koala steals everybody's attention.

Have you ever seen a koala cross a road? Well, that's not a joke. It doesn't have a punchline. I'd never seen one

before. Now the reason this is important is koalas are

endangered. Believe it or not, as fertile as they are, they're endangered by the fact that

habitat destruction includes roadways right through where they live, from eucalyptus to

eucalyptus. I learned this reading about them and sometimes

they provide a rope overhead or a wafer a koala across the road in traffic. Not this time, but the traffic wasn't charging cars and honking

trucks. It was... What is this? It's an Iron Man run, Jeremy Jeremy is that what it is? That's exactly what it is John

and the iron man competition we're talking about is the Port Macquarie iron man

competition which is actually just in northern New South Wales so about three hours north of

where I am here at the moment and this event runs every year and it runs basically to have a part of it which

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