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In the
Far North Coast region of New South Wales lies Lismore, a thriving
university city at the doorstep of five World Heritage National
parks.
Romantically,
the town was named by Jane Wilson, wife of the first white settler,
Scot William Wilson. The area reminded her of the Lismore on the
Isle of Loche Linnhe where she and William had honeymooned. Today,
however, a series of astonishing links has led to Lismore taking the
name Rainbow Region: the Aborigines believe the land was created by
the Rainbow Serpent; the first white explorers sailed down the
Richmond River in HMS Rainbow; the celebrated Aquarius Festival of
1973 adopted a rainbow theme; rainbows are a regular phenomena over
the surrounding mountains.
And
while the city is acknowledged as a large and important commercial
centre serving that lush, fertile country typical of NSW's northern
rivers, the influence of the Aquarius Festival lives on in the
perception that Lismore remains at the heartland of Australia's
hippiedom. These days, however, the alternative lifestyle is driven
more by a passionate defence of the sanctity of the remaining
rainforest and wilderness areas than psychedelia.
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