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1    When tea is not tea.                            RECOMMENDED


                                                                    Reading
                    If someone in Australia or New
                Zealand invite you to tea, they mean
                dinner. “Tea” is how Aussies and Kiwis
                refer to the evening meal.                A Town Like Alice
                                                          by Nevil Shute (Fiction, Australia)
                2    Buy real indigenous art.             The Fatal Shore

                                                          by Robert Hughes (History, Australia)
                     Among the most popular things
                to buy in Australia are art and artifacts   A Traveller’s History of Australia
                made by Aboriginal people, be it a        by John H. Chambers
                handmade boomerang, a “dot painting”      (History, Australia)
                depicting mythical symbols, or a          In a Sunburned Country
                hand-carved didgeridoo instrument.        by Bill Bryson (History, Australia)
                But sadly, there is a brisk trade in

                imported knocko s, and many cases         The Harp in the South
                                                          by Ruth Park (Fiction, Australia)
                where the local artist is just not fairly
                compensated. One way to be sure that      Come on Shore and We Will
                the item you purchase has been ethically   Kill and Eat You All
                sourced is to ask the shopkeeper who      by Christina Thompson
                the individual artist is. They should be   (Memoir/History, New Zealand)
                able to tell you. Look also to see if the   Once Were Warriors
                store displays the Indigenous Art Code    by Alan Duff (Literature, New Zealand)
                seal somewhere in the store. This is a
                voluntary organization that seeks to      Whale Rider
                                                          by Witi Ihimaera (Fiction, New Zealand)
                prevent the exploitation of Indigenous
                artists and promotes ethical ways to      Do they Speak English
                buy Indigenous art.                       Down There?
                It’s considered the                       by Susan C. Tunney
                “gold standard”                           (Memoir, New Zealand)
                among art dealers                         The Luminaries
                and gallery owners.                       by Eleanor Catton
                                                          (Fiction, New Zealand
                     Always swim between
                3the flags in Australia.

                You’ll certainly want to get out and enjoy some of Australia’s many spectacular beaches.
                But don’t just dive in anywhere … There are stinging jellyfish, sharks, and yes, some-
                times crocs in those ocean waters. Even Sydney Harbour has many bullsharks, which
                are very aggressive. At public beaches, lifeguards put flags up to denote the areas that
                are safe—not just from the creatures, but the dangerous riptides and currents.

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