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Alice Springs

American  

noun

  1. a town in Northern Territory, in central Australia.

Alice Springs British  

noun

  1. Former name (until 1931): Stuart.  a town in central Australia, in the Northern Territory, in the Macdonnell Ranges. Pop: 23 640 (2001)

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Beautiful ladies are "chicky babes", with one so beguiling she's "hot as a tin roof in Alice" – a nod to the extreme heat of Alice Springs' desert landscape.

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His killer, Bradley Murdoch, who died on Tuesday, has never revealed what he did with the 28-year-old's remains after he shot him dead on a remote road near Alice Springs.

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Murdoch, 67, died on Tuesday while serving a life sentence at a jail in Alice Springs, having never revealed what he did with the 28-year-old's body.

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He was being treated at Alice Springs Hospital in recent weeks, reportedly for terminal cancer.

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Murdoch, 67, was serving a life sentence at a prison in Alice Springs, in Australia's Northern Territory.

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