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Anyhow, have a Winfield*

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Paul Hogan's done some wicked, wicked things in his time. Like leading thousands of Australians to an early grave by flogging durries. Like hiding overseas, rather than settle a shitfight with the Australian Tax Office, who were trying to ping him for $150 million. And of course, the Paul Hogan show.  Not to mention the abominable Crocodile Dundee III. Leaving aside those atrocities, I'm prepared to cut Hoges a bit of slack, because if it wasn't for him, Kakadu would probably be a giant uranium mine. You see, when he made the original Crocodile Dundee, access to Kakadu wasn't much more than a dirt road leading to the mine.  Nobody went there.  Hoges changed all that. If you haven't seen Crocodile Dundee, you should.  It's far from perfect (for example, the pub, thanks to a bit of production trickery isn't in Kakadu at all, it's thousands of kilometres away in Queensland). But the scenery and indigenous heritage is the real deal. ...