The Answers:

1. speedo's a snug form of mens swimwear (as the paper says)
2. Big
3. Red
4. A banana bender
5. Bob Hawke
6. Italy
7. 52
8. Kylie Minogue
9. Waratah National Park
10. Tomato sauce
11. Swimming pool complex (irony anyone??)
12. 30 odd feet of grunts
13. The wobble board
14. 1966
15. Gundagai
16. Irish
17. Cyclone Tracey hit
18. Surrounded by
19. Muriels wedding
20. a snake
21. Australia II
22. Green and gold
23. Dorothea Mackellar
24. 1948
25. Wheel of fortune.

So, Miss Meri,you did very well.

My mum and I both got 16 right! lol

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