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THE CASE OF THE ROARING BUNYIP

MENTION THE New South Wales Southern Highlands and most people think of rolling hills, Devonshire teas and stores peddling antiques. But a large number of historical reports suggest that the quaint highlands’ village of Burrawang, 140km south-west of Sydney, should also conjure thoughts of bunyips.

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