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Matthew Benns is Editor-at-Large at The Daily Telegraph. He is a career journalist from Fleet Street to Sydney and has covered stories all over the world, tracking tigers in the Russian Far East to finding Elvis Presley’s first girlfriend in Biloxi, Mississippi.

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Bean team‘s Dubrovnik pop culture shock

Dubrovnik is steeped in 1400 years of history but our intrepid travellers discover that tourists are more interested in landmarks where the Games of Thrones and Star Wars were filmed.

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Why driving a top-down sports car in the rain is a bad idea

While driving from Slovenia to Croatia on their epic journey, Warren Brown and Matthew Benns learned why travelling in a top-down sports care isn’t always the best idea.

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The hills are alive with the sound of the Bean 14 roadster

Our intrepid travellers drove through the Austrian Alps in their 100-year-old roadster defying rain, fog and freezing winds to arrive in the picturesque Slovenian capital of Ljubljana.

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Two men’s ‘completely nuts’ trip around the world

Almost a century after the original journey, The Daily Telegraph’s Matthew Benns and Warren Brown are recreating an iconic journey around the world. Follow their adventure.

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## EMBARGO - No use until 19:00 on 20/09/2024 ## Sydney adventurers, cartoonist Warren brown (left) and journalist Matthew Benns in their vintage Bean 14 car leaving London on September 20, 2024 for a three month journey to Australia. Photo: Jacquelin Magnay

King Charles’ message to adventuring Aussies

Two adventurers from The Daily Telegraph have set off on an incredible around-the-world trip, with a message from the King.

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WEEKEND TELEGRAPHS SPECIAL. HIGH STEAKS , PLEASE CONTACT WEEKEND PIC EDITOR JEFF DARMANIN BEFORE PUBLISHING. , ON HOLD : Embargoed for The Daily telegraph. 15.8.2024 Dr Andrew Forrest at his property Minderoo which is in the North West of Western Australia.. Picture: Rohan Kelly

‘I don’t usually share that story’: Twiggy opens up

Mining magnate Andrew Forrest has opened up about a tragic incident he witnessed as a boy that has give him a “deep appreciation for life”.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos May 19, 2022: NSW Aboriginal Land Council chair Roy Ah-See, addresses the media at the NSW Parliament in Sydney.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Christian Gilles

Indigenous culture ‘hijacked for hidden agendas’

The former chair of the NSW Aboriginal Land Council has blasted the decision to ban part of a $1 billion gold mine, saying Indigenous culture was “hijacked for hidden agendas”.

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, Community members from Blaney who are upset that the Federal Government has stopped a gold mine from going ahead in the area. From left Gabby Nixen, Cooper Miskell 17 aspiring mine worker, Billy Cramp (current mine worker) , Sam Issa 22y (son of pub owner) , Tom Issa (pub owner), Tony Gittany, and Alison Wasson , Picture: Graham Schumann, ,

‘Hoodwinked’: Key warning ignored over $1b gold mine

Tanya Plibersek’s decision to block a gold mine has come under fire from Indigenous leaders who claim the minister has been hoodwinked by groups “hijacking” the issue for their own agenda.

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(FILES) This photograph taken on February 13, 2023 shows wind turbines in a wind farm in Fuendejalon, with the Moncayo mount in background, Zaragoza province, northern Spain. Boosted by the rise of artificial intelligence, data centre projects are multiplying in Aragon, a Spanish region at the forefront of renewable energies leading to a boom encouraged by the authorities, who are hoping for major economic spin-offs. (Photo by CESAR MANSO / AFP)

Giant wind, solar farms proposed for NSW town

A dramatic expansion of controversial renewable energy zones into country NSW has been met with outrage from the communities who will see high voltage transmission lines snaking across their land.

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EnergyCo rejects shorter route for transmission lines

Angry landholders say they are being “bulldozed” by public owned EnergyCo after it rejected a shorter route for renewable energy transmission lines on public land that would save $620 million.

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