The grass isn't greener across the Ditch (Stuff)
Story date: 2008-06-21 04:44:22
Added on: 2008-06-21 18:09:15
Australia lives up to its image in many ways. Kiwi migrants to Melbourne, for example, can read the newspaper as though it's a novel, its fanciful descriptions of gang wars and restaurant assassinations, corrupt police passing names of police informers to gangland contacts, who call in the hitmen.
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