Australia’s Booming Foreign Born Population
Australia’s foreign born population grew to more than 30 per cent in 2024. It’s the highest percentage of foreign born in the country since the late 19th century.
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Monday, December 8, 2025
Philippines
Tastes of Heaven and Hell: Filipino Cuisine
Famously called the fruit the ‘tastes like heaven but tastes like hell,’ Durian disagrees with most western tastebuds for its rank smell (one that most closely resembles a backed up toilet!).
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Top Ten Destinations: The Philippines
As the capital of the Philippines, Manila will be most’s first glimpse of the country, and doesn’t usually impress.
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Body of Christ: Ritual Crucifixions in San Fernando
As many as ten men each year volunteer to be Jesus and are nailed to the cross with slender silvery spikes.
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Hanging Coffins of Sagada
The people of Sagada have devised a unique burial ritual involving the placement of dead relatives into caves after carefully preparing a hollowed out log.
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