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November 25, 2005
I'm down at Victor Harbor amidst schoolies week--the end-of-school holiday marked by freedom and letting your hair down.
Paul Zanetti
Surfers is the Mecca. The real deal. It's where schoolies began. Schoolies 'week', has become a part of Australian culture - and 'become a tradition'. It's a rite of passage, a week in which thousands of young people head for Queensland's beaches to celebrate the end of their exams and the beginning of their new-found freedom.
Like the Gold Coast Victor Harbor braces for the schoolies coming down from Adelaide ---an invasion of about 10,000 teenagers in the next few days. Its big bucks for the town as it will be party, party, party because there isn't much of good night life in Victor.
Schoolies are a particular breed of sexual tourist---those into drug and alcohol abuse. The local authorities now run it as a festival with free gigs and volunteers keeping an eye on teenagers who might be partying a little too hard. Schoolies week is celebrated rather than feared.
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haha, nice comic of schoolies. where did you find it?