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A red-blooded Queenslander has paused this afternoon and wondered what goes on in a part of the country he’s never been to.
The space between the nation’s most antisocial and weird capital cities has long been a sense of intrigue to John Rhodes, a 23-year-old business studies student at South Betoota Polytechnic College, who told The Advocate that it’s this section of land especially that gets his attention some days.
“So funny to think people live down there,” he said.
“What do they do? I’ve never met anyone from down that way and I’ve never been there. I’ve been to Melbourne and I’ve been to Adelaide. That’s about it.”
John explained to our reporter that he’s seen place names like Nhill and Ouyen and Keith and wondered if they even speak English down there.
“It reads like everything is in Pidgin English,” he said.
“I don’t mean that in a mean way, it’s just so foreign to me. Like, if we plucked some bloke from, say, Edenhope and took him up the Gulf or deep in the channels around here, he’d be wigging out. Not to say that if I was in Edenhope that I’d be freaking out a bit. I mean, I would be,”
“Surely you blokes would know someone from there? What do they do?”
The Advocate admitted they don’t.
More to come.
