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Richardson Park is a park in the Newcastle suburb of Hamilton North. The park is host to more than a dozen very large Moreton Bay Fig trees (Ficus macrophylla) that are likely over 100 years old. In addition to the Moreton Bay Figs, there are also several other native species including Port Jackson Figs (Ficus rubiginosa), Hills Weeping Fig (Ficus microcarpa), Bangalay (Eucalyptus botryoides), Swamp Mahogany (Eucalyptus robusta) and Sydney Blue Gum (Eucalyptus saligna). The park has multiple uses, includes a synthetic cricket pitch, and is also used as a circus ground on occasion.
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There are no kangaroos in Austria. We're talking about Australia, the world's smallest continent. That being cleared up, let's dive right in! Australia is a sovereign state under the Commonwealth of Nations, which is in turn overseen by Queen Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth. The continent was first sighted and charted by the Dutch in 1606. Captain James Cook of Britain came along in the next century to claim it for Britain and name it "New South Wales." Shortly thereafter it was declared to be a penal colony full of nothing but criminals and convicts, giving it the crap reputation you may have heard at your last cocktail party. This rumor ignores 40,000 years of pre-European human history, especially the Aboriginal concept of Dreamtime, an interesting explanation of physical and spiritual reality. The two biggest cities in Australia are Sydney and Melbourne. Sydney is more for business, Melbourne for arts. But that's painting in very broad strokes. Take a whirl around the panoramas to see for yourself! Text by Steve Smith.
