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TIM THE YOWIE MAN OUR VANISHING LAKE

I’D LOVE TO HAVE a dollar for each time someone has asked me, “Isn’t Lake George connected to a lake in China, or is it Siberia?”

According to this far-fetched, yet surprisingly oft-touted, theory, the water levels in Lake George, an ephemeral body of water located between Goulburn and Canberra, “go up as the water levels in [insert random name of another lake in China or Siberia] go down,

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