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Cliff Young (athlete)

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Albert Ernest Clifford "Cliff" Young, OAM (8 February 19222 November 2003) was an Australian potato farmer and athlete from Beech Forest, Victoria, best known for his unexpected win of the inaugural Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon in 1983 at 61 years of age. [1]

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ABC (Australian TV channel)

ABC (formerly known as The ABC National Television Service or ABC-TV from 1956 until 2008, and as ABC1 from 2008 until 2014) is a national public television network in Australia.

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Anne Tenney

Anne Tenney (born 1954 in Sydney) is an Australian film, television and theatre actress, probably best known for her role as Melissa "Molly" Jones in the television drama A Country Practice, Liz Taylor in Always Greener and Sal Kerrigan opposite Michael Caton in the major hit film The Castle.

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Athlete

An athlete (also sportsman or sportswoman) is a person who competes in one or more sports that involve physical strength, speed or endurance.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) founded in 1929 is Australia's national broadcaster, funded by the Australian Federal Government but specifically independent of Government and politics in the Commonwealth.

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Beech Forest, Victoria

Beech Forest is a town in Victoria, Australia.

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Cliff Young Australian 6-day race

The Cliff Young Australian 6 Day Race is an ultramarathon race that takes place in Colac, Victoria.

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Colac, Victoria

Colac is a small city in the Western District of Victoria, Australia, approximately 150 kilometres south-west of Melbourne on the southern shore of Lake Colac and the surrounding volcanic plains, approximately inland from Bass Strait.

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Fairfax Media

Fairfax Media Limited (formerly John Fairfax and Sons) is one of the largest media companies in Australia and New Zealand, with investments in newspaper, magazines, radio and digital properties.

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Farm

A farm is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural processes with the primary objective of producing food and other crops; it is the basic facility in food production.

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Great Otway National Park

The Great Otway National Park, located in the Barwon South West region of Victoria, Australia.

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Hannah Gadsby

Hannah Gadsby is an Australian comedian and writer.

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Joan Sydney

Joan Sydney (born 5 September 1938), is an English Australian actress, known for her work in radio, theatre, television serials and soap operas, of the latter best known as Valda Sheergold, in serial Neighbours and previously as Maggie Sloan in A Country Practice.

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Kevin Harrington (actor)

Kevin Harrington (born 1959) is an Australian stage, television and film actor who is perhaps best known for his roles as Kevin Findlay on the Australian drama Seachange in the 1990s and as David Bishop on the soap opera Neighbours.

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Krew Boylan

Krew Boylan (born 1982 or 1983) is an Australian actress.

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Order of Australia

The Order of Australia is an order of chivalry established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, to recognise Australian citizens and other persons for achievement or meritorious service.

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Prisoner (TV series)

Prisoner is an Australian soap opera set in a women's prison, Wentworth Detention Centre, which was located in the fictitious Melbourne suburb of Wentworth.

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Roy Billing

Roy Harwood Billing (born 1947) is a New Zealand television actor, now based in Sydney, Australia.

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Sheep

Domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are quadrupedal, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock.

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Sydney Comedy Festival

The Sydney Comedy Festival is an annual comedy festival held in Sydney, Australia.

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Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon

The Westfield Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon was an annual ultramarathon foot race held between 1983 and 1991.

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Television film

A television film (also known as a TV movie, TV film, television movie, telefilm, telemovie, made-for-television movie, made-for-television film, direct-to-TV movie, direct-to-TV film, movie of the week, feature-length drama, single drama and original movie) is a feature-length motion picture that is produced for, and originally distributed by or to, a television network, in contrast to theatrical films, which are made explicitly for initial showing in movie theaters.

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Text Publishing

Text Publishing is an independent Australian publisher of fiction and non-fiction.

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The Age

The Age is a daily newspaper that has been published in Melbourne, Australia, since 1854.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia.

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The Tortoise and the Hare

"The Tortoise and the Hare" is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 226 in the Perry Index.

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The World Today (Australian radio program)

The World Today is a midday current affairs program which delivers national and international news and analysis to radio and online audiences nationally and throughout the region.

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Ultramarathon

An ultramarathon, also called ultra distance or ultra running, is any footrace longer than the traditional marathon length of.

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Wellington boot

The Wellington boot is a type of boot based upon leather Hessian boots.

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Westfield Doncaster

Westfield Doncaster (formerly Doncaster Shoppingtown) is a shopping centre 50% owned by Scentre Group and 25% owned by ISPT and 25% owned by Asia Property Fund (as of May 2015) located in Doncaster, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Westfield Group

Westfield Group was an Australian shopping centre company that existed from 1960 to 2014, when it split into two independent companies: Scentre Group, which now owns and operates the Australian and New Zealand Westfield shopping centre portfolio; and Westfield Corporation, which owns and operates the American and European center portfolio.

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Westfield Parramatta

Westfield Parramatta is a shopping centre in Parramatta, a city within the Greater Sydney Metropolitan area Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Young_(athlete)

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