Thread: ‘Fraser Island’ to be dropped in favour of Indigenous name K’gari

Originally Posted by david44

Or Magnetic Island a short boat ride off Townsville

Went skydiving over Magnetic Island aged 21-ish, remember thinking 'Wot lucky fookers get to live here'. The memories of a week stopping off in Townsville are starting to come back. None of which are pretty. I seem to remember a stack of free drink vouchers and an English mate that started his porn career there with a national soft-porn mag. The name escapes me.

Originally Posted by david44

the delights of Manly

Got to know an arrogant tosser of a murderer/hotelier from there quite well, was around 12 into a 25 stretch (him, not me), originally got around 12 years but then appealed it and they doubled it to 25, an Asian bloke broke in and killed his wife next to him in bed irrc, that he set up (or didn't), Andrew (weird Eastern European name) Kaladzich or something. Owned the Manly Something Hotel.


Fok I miss Australia. Or whatever they're calling it nowadays.