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1. I am walking down Hay Street passing the Red House with gold in my pocket. Where in Australia am I?
2. We leave the Golden Mile and head along the famous water pipeline to this city. Founded in 1829 by Captain James Stirling and nestled between the Indian Ocean and the Darling Scarp, what city am I?
3. I was a bustling small mining town in the early 1900's. Today mining continues, but the town's economy is supplemented by tourism. The barren surrounds of the town, the result of timber felling, noxious smelter fumes and the region's high rainfall, remind some tourists of a moonscape.
4. Which Australian city was host to the first Olympic Games in the southern hemisphere?
5. An Australian Prime Minister, whose name is now the colloquial slang for salt, disappeared off the beach near this popular holiday spot.
6. I am a small town best known for the wine region named after it, identified by a strip of soil along the Riddoch Highway?
7. I am the birthplace of former Australian cricketeer, David Clarence Boon. He is an iconic Australian legend and a proud Tasmanian. Where was he born?
8. The pearling capital of Australia and a favoured town for tourists, whose presence can more than double the town's population during the season. Where am I?
9. This city was once listed in the Guinness Book of Records for being the largest city in the world by area.
10. This town is called the 'Gateway to the Great Barrier Reef' and lies on the Burnett River in Queensland.
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