I was sitting in a water park in Darwin, Australia, last year. And sitting it was – I’m no hero when it comes to anything involving risk. It was the middle of the Northern Territory’s winter term, known as the dry season, and all the children would be in school.
So I thought we would have the park to ourselves.But to our horror – no. There were four children in it. Now you can take the head out of the school but you can’t take the school out of the head! The words “absence” and “unauthorised” sprang to mind.
So like an off-duty policeman I set off to investigate.
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