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Billy’s Kokoda trek to mateship

Andrew Mole

BILLY O’Toole is pretty sure he has returned from his trek along the Kokoda Trail a different person. Not just because he did not fully realise how physically demanding it would be, but because he says “it has given me a real perspective about what ‘hard’ actually is”. Billy said on the first night out […]

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