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Australian correspondent Peter Ryan

From Summer Times, 11:08 am today

Peter Ryan joins Anna Thomas with stories from across the ditch, including 'cabana rage' striking beachgoers, the legalisation of pet crocodiles, and the death of an Aussie legend, Alan Adler, who ran the photo booth at Flinders Street Station in Melbourne.

This handout photo taken on on September 14, 2011 and received on February 12, 2013 shows Toody Scott feeding Cassius - who has reclaimed his crown as the world's biggest crocodile in captivity, with his Australian handler saying it will boost business, on Green Island, Queensland. The 5.48-metre (17 ft 11ins) crocodile, kept in a park on an island off Australia's Queensland, held the record until "Lolong", a 6.17-metre suspected man-eater, was caught in the Philippines 17 months ago. But with Lolong's death from a mystery illness on Sunday, Cassius is once again on top. "The Guinness Book of World Records contacted us as soon as Lolong died," Billy Craig, a croc wrangler at Marineland Melanesia where Cassius lives, told AFP. AFP PHOTO / MARINELAND MELANESIA
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Photo: Supplied / Marineland Melanesia

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