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Playboy’s Women Down Under, 2000

AKA the world's best travel guides.

Classics • August 21, 2026
Photography ARNY FREYTAG

This story first ran in our December 2000 issue. Things are a little different in Australia. There, trees lose their bark, not their leaves. In Australia, swans are black and mammals have pockets. The English once used it as a prison colony, but over time, Australia reinvented itself into a collage of the best of […]

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