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Let’s Go strongly urges you to consider the risks before you choose to hitchhike. Hitching means entrusting your life to a stranger and risking assault, sexual harassment, theft, and unsafe driving. For women traveling alone (or even in pairs), hitching is just too dangerous. A man and a woman are a less dangerous combination; two men will have a harder time getting a lift, while three men will go nowhere. In more populous coastal states—Queensland in particular—hitchhiking is actively discouraged by the state government, and hitching on a motorway instead of a footpath is considered a traffic offense. Those who do hitchhike in Australia generally flag down giant

Let’S Not Go. Let’s Go never recommends hitchhiking as a safe means of transportation; none of the information here is intended to endorse it.

road trains , which drive very fast and operate on a tight schedule.

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