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Australian children can now hop down to the nearest phone box and dial Ho Ho Ho (46 46 46) to be put through to Father Christmas himself.
Children across the country can make free calls to Santa until Christmas Eve from one of Telstra's more than 14,000 payphones.
In the past five years, the most remote call to Santa was from a small First Nations community in the heart of the NT, Anmatjere (Pmara Jutjunta).
A young child calls Santa on a payphone. Supplied
The phones making the most calls to the North Pole in each state were:
- NSW: Mosman - The Esplanade
- VIC: Melbourne - Bourke Street Mall
- QLD: Seventeen Seventy - Captain Cook Drive
- SA: Hahndorf - Mount Barker Road
- WA: Coogee - Cockburn Road
- TAS: South Hobart - Washington Street
- NT: Tennant Creek - Tinkarli Town Camp
- ACT: Garran - Garran Place
