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"Beside a desolate stretch of outback road, a gum tree is covered in bras.
A few hours south, another is draped with old pairs of shoes. To the west, on
banks of the Murray Darling River, hundreds of pairs of thongs are nailed to
sawn-off tree trunks. Locals call them “thong trees”.
And more than 1,000km north-east, at end of a gravel road a few hours west of
Brisbane, five rusty push bikes and two pairs of shoes hang in an old gum tree.
A sign nailed to the trunk calls it the “Onya Tree” – short for “goodonya”, or
“good on you”.
“Some can be explained, others cannot,” says the Canberra historian and author
Nichole Overall, who investigated the origins of hundreds of teddy bears nailed
to trees along a highway outside Australia’s capital."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
