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    Outback Australia: True Stories - Vol. 2
    Outback Australia: True Stories - Vol. 2
    Outback Australia: True Stories - Vol. 2
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    Outback Australia: True Stories - Vol. 2

    By Matt Flynn

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    Living in the wilder parts of Australia has its challenges.

    These are the true stories of one person's journey from Australia's suburbs to the remote northern Outback, and then to remote rural Tasmania.

    It is a story of deadly snakes, bush drumming, killer bicycles, Tasmanian tigers, and barramundi fishing.

    Compiled by Matt Flynn, a former Northern Territory journalist who also publishes fishing and outdoors magazines.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMatt Flynn
    Release dateSep 8, 2017
    ISBN9781370125746
    Outback Australia: True Stories - Vol. 2
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    Matt Flynn

    A former resident of the remote and searing Northern Territory of Australia, now living in the remote and freezing far south of Tasmania. A bewildered thylacine enthusiast, and father of two.

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      Book preview

      Outback Australia - Matt Flynn

      Outback Australia: Heat, Snakes & Crocodiles - Volume 2

      Copyright 2017 The Editor’s Office PL, Huon Valley, Tasmania, Australia.

      ISBN 9781370125746

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes: Please respect the hard work of the authors, editors and compilers.This ebook is licensed for your personal use. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, then please purchase your own copy at http://www.smashwords.com.

      Front cover: What you do when you can’t practise at home … the drum kit is set up behind the Kombi van on a track near Katherine, NT. With speakers overhead, jamming along to music in 38C heat was good preparation for playing in hot, sweaty and smoky Territory pubs.

      By MATT FLYNN - Matt is a magazine publisher, journalist and musician who lived for 23 years in Australia’s Northern Territory, before moving to southern rural Tasmania.

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      The Stories

      1 - The Pub Brawl

      2 - Dicing with Death

      3 - Black and White

      4 - Chromies and Horses

      5 - Killers

      6 - The Deadly Flying Wedge

      7 - Mudflats

      8 - Quolls

      9 - Heat

      10 - Drums in the Outback

      11 - Thylacines

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      Chapter 1 – The Pub Brawl

      Pub brawling has a long history in Australia, and is often mentioned in stories about remote Outback towns.

      City hotels are not immune to the phenomenon, but it doesn’t happen as much today.

      The correct brawling etiquette has always been to ask someone outside, but not everyone makes it out in time.

      And then there are the sucker-punchers.

      My pub-going years caught the tail end of a pub-brawling era.

      Or perhaps it was just the beginning of a quiet period, before drugs like crystal meth hit the streets and the aggro started up again. Being a part-time musician, I often worked in pubs.

      The most brawls I saw were in Queensland’s capital city of Brisbane.

      The Banyo Tavern was my local in the 1980s, and it had a reliable carpark brawl at closing time most Friday nights, after the disco.

      It wasn’t just the men shaping up. Women also joined in.

      Other suburban Brisbane pubs weren’t much better. I reckon it was the rum that Queenslanders loved to drink. Too much sugar.

      Once, at an inner city venue, I watched from stage as a girl picked up a glass and calmly walked to another table and smashed it into a woman’s face.

      Just like that.

      At Brisbane pubs, in the mid 1980s, you could sometimes feel the aggro when you walked in.

      I was a weightlifter

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