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SUCH A PERFECT DAY

School holidays approach, and they’re packed full of type-two family fun: Experiences that range from uncomfortable to miserable while you’re doing them, but leave you with good memories (and lessons) for life.

It starts tomorrow when I drop my 14-year-old off for a ten-day program at Mittagundi. This Victorian outdoor-education centre has been operating for more than forty years, plonking groups of young people in the mountains; giving them time, challenges and purposeful

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