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It's not always like the tropics here.

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It seems that not having central heating is typically Australian. People are lining up in stores to buy space heaters, now that it's cold. As I was listening to the radio, a woman, who had just won a bit of cash from a giveaway, was asked what she was going to do with it, and she said, 'buy a good space heater.' Why don't houses have central heating? It's really not that warm here...

 
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