On our final day in Australia, we drove on the left-hand side of the road down the Esplanade in Cairns, where local townspeople gathered at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day, and read inscriptions, in English, recalling the heroic support of Australia’s small ships for the efforts of the allied navies in south-east Asia. For all its differences and extremes, Australia isn’t so far from home.

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