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Speaker 1: Donna de Mayo, our Australia correspondent, Donna, very cold over

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Speaker 1: your way.

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Speaker 2: Oh, you wouldn't believe it, but Australians just love talking

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Speaker 2: about the weather and we have had record load temperatures

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Speaker 2: across Southeast Australia. This icy blast has struck several states

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Speaker 2: in fact, and these freezing temperatures have pretty much caught

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Speaker 2: us unawares. In the capital, for instance, in Canberra minus

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Speaker 2: six point nine degrees, Inland, New South Wales below zero

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Speaker 2: across many areas and in a South Australia town the

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Speaker 2: coldest September in sixty two years. As I mentioned New

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Speaker 2: South Wales, you know areas minus eight, minus six in

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Speaker 2: Bathist minus four degrees. Victoria regional areas had minus four

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Speaker 2: point five and minus four in the Mali Region in

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Speaker 2: the heart of Victoria the coldest in twenty nine years.

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Speaker 2: So the way the Bureau says, oh, this system has

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Speaker 2: come almost from Antarctica and these temperatures about five to

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Speaker 2: eight degrees below average. Frankly, it's all taken. It's all

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Speaker 2: been a bit of a shock, to be honest. And

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Speaker 2: the weather forecast for today it's going to be a

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Speaker 2: frosty morning but thankfully by tomorrow it should start warming up.

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Speaker 1: I was going to say, is this really news, but

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Speaker 1: it's cold in Australia. Yes, there is news. Let's go

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Speaker 1: to trot warn tropical Queensland. There's a famous island that's

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Speaker 1: been sold.

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Speaker 2: So this Queensland island inspired scenes in Chronicles of Narnia,

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Speaker 2: a film that came out I think around twenty ten.

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Speaker 2: It's just sold at auction. There were about two hundred

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Speaker 2: and eighty seven inquiries. Now sadly I wasn't one of them.

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Speaker 2: But this place is called Little Green Island. It's owned

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Speaker 2: by a film producer and actor called Douglas Gresham. Happens

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Speaker 2: to be the stepson of Narnia's author C. S. Lewis.

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Speaker 2: It's just south of the wit Sunday Islands on the

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Speaker 2: Grape Barrier Reef. A beautiful, beautiful part of the world.

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Speaker 2: Well Gresham happens to live in Malta, but he bought

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Speaker 2: this sixty three acre private island for two point four

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Speaker 2: to five million about fifteen years ago. And what's their well,

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Speaker 2: tropical forest, lagoon, pristine beaches, one house and a caretaker's

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Speaker 2: cottage and a pool. And the family said that they

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Speaker 2: relay to the agent that this island had inspired these

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Speaker 2: scenes in this film, The Chronicles of Narnia. The agent

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Speaker 2: said it was unspilt and secluded and it was quite beautiful.

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Speaker 2: But they're very very thankful. Locals are anyway, that the

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Speaker 2: buyer came from Macai in Queensland, so I didn't go

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Speaker 2: to an international buyer. As I mentioned, many many people

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Speaker 2: wanted to get their hands on this beautiful, beautiful part

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Speaker 2: of the world.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like it. Donna, thank you very much for that.

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Speaker 1: Don and our Australia correspondent.

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