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Mountain hideaway

Vicki Jones blames her parents for her peripatetic lifestyle. Both enjoyed airline careers — her father with TAA and her mother with ANA — before her dad took a job as the chief electoral officer for what was then the Australian-administered Territory of Papua New Guinea and moved his family to Port Moresby. Vicki and her four older sisters went to boarding school on the mainland, initially in Warwick in south-eastern Queensland and later to Somerville

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