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Australia Day

By Chris | January 25th, 2008 |

Tomorrow 26 January is Australia Day and Australian expats all over London will be out celebrating their country’s national day. It commemorates the founding of the first British settlement in Australia with the building of the penal colony at Sydney Cove in 1788.
London has a whole bunch of pubs and bars with a distinctly Aussie [...]

Celebrate Australia Day in London

By Chris | January 22nd, 2007 |

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This Friday, 26 Janaury, is Australia Day, the Aussies national day that commemorates the landing in 1778 of the First Fleet and the setting up of the colony at New South Wales.
With tens of thousands of Australians in the UK they’ll be a lot of partying around central London this weekend. The Australia Day Foundation [...]