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Saturday August 15, 1998
Backpackers: One man's meat ... SO, WHAT'S it like inside those backpacker hostels? Dormitories modelled on Soviet gulags? Bathrooms botanically richer than a Queensland rainforest? And the inescapable aroma of decomposing socks? Not according to the latest edition of the Federal Government