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Belgian Tourist rape victim in Australia, discusses ordeal and recovery

dailylife.com.au reported… Since studying tourism it had been my dream to visit Australia. I was planning to discover Sydney and then to travel further. I arrived in November last year and hoped to stay for about a year.

On my second day in Sydney I still felt quite jetlagged and in the early evening I decided to go for a walk outside and see the neighborhood around Kings Cross where I was staying.

As I was wandering, enjoying all of the lights and the sounds I found myself in a dark street that I didn’t recognise.

As I tried to orientate myself back to the hotel a man grabbed me from behind, and dragged me into an alley. He shoved me against a wall with his hand around my throat. I was paralysed with fear. Read Article

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Australia: British Tourist dies in fall at remote canyon

ibtimes.co.uk reported a British tourist has died after falling nearly 100ft while walking in a remote canyon in central Australia, police have said. The 23-year-old woman, who has not been named yet, fell from the Rim Walk – the highest point – in the remote Kings Canyon in Watarrka National Park in the Northern Territory. […]

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Tourist from UK missing in Australia for two weeks

dailymail.co.uk reported Police have appealed for public help to find a missing UK tourist who has not had contact with his family in Scotland for two weeks. Twenty-six year old Jonathan Ansell, who has been in Australia for about two years, last told his family he was in Melbourne, but Mr Ansell may have travelled […]

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Gympie Australia French Backpacker wakes up to find drunk fondling her in hostel

dailymercury.com.au reported… A FRENCH backpacker woke to find a drunken stranger touching her intimately as she slept in a hostel room with her fiance, Gympie Magistrates Court was told yesterday. The woman initially thought it was her fiance fondling her, but was distressed to wake and find it was someone she had never met, the […]

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Australia: Man missing after being snatched from boat by crocodile at National Park

Police were combing waterways in Australia’s Kakadu national park after a man was reportedly snatched from his boat by a crocodile as terrified relatives looked on. The man, aged 62 according to media reports, was taken on the remote South Alligator River late on Saturday afternoon. His wife, son and daughter-in-law were said to have […]

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Australia: Backpacking tourist mugged, beaten b

dailymail.co.uk reported The British backpacker who was viciously beaten up in Bundaberg, Queensland, on Saturday night has spoken for the first time about the ordeal and admitted only now does he realise how serious the attack was. Speaking to MailOnline from his hospital bed, the talented young footballer, who has been traveling around Australia since […]

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Australia: German tourist killed in vehicle accident

sbs.com.au reported that a 20-year-old German woman has been killed when a car carrying five foreign nationals rolled over in rural Western Australia. Seriously injured in the crash, in the state’s Gascoyne region, were a 15-year-old girl, an Israeli national, and a 21-year-old woman, also from Germany. The 22-year-old female driver, also a German national, […]

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Tazmania: tourist from Denmark dies after drinking poppy tea

A 26-year-old Danish tourist has died in Tasmania from drinking tea brewed from poppies. According to local authorities, the dead man was found in a motorhome at about 9am local time. The dead man’s travelling companion reported the death to the police. The two were camping in Oatlands, located 80 kilometres north of Hobart, Tasmania’s […]

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Australia: German Tourist Missing

A search for a German tourist missing in central NSW is set to enter its third day. Arvid Stenzel, 19, was last seen leaving a campsite at Lake Canobolas, near Orange, in the early hours of Sunday to go for a walk. About 3.15am he called in to the campsite’s caretaker cottage, saying he was […]

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British Backpacker Murdered in Australia

dailymail.co.uk reported that a teenage British backpacker was thrown to her death from a 65ft bridge after being robbed in a quiet Australian town, police feared today. The body of 19-year-old Caroline Ann Stuttle, from York, was discovered at the foot of the road bridge in Bundaberg, 186 miles north of Brisbane, around 10.30pm local […]

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