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Scraping Art off the Tarmac
Far up north, just before you get to the Never-Never, strange people do strange things—with toads. Some people freeze them and stuff them, others just collect the squashed ones and transform them into gallery art. Stuffed cane toads—and their body parts—are for sale every Sunday morning in the Cotter Street Markets in the centre of Townsville.
Australia really is the country of irreverence and this article proves it. This story—of about 1500 words and a half dozen photos—would make a great travel piece because of the way it gets into and behind the minds of some real dinkum aussies in far north Queensland.
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