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Ghunmarn Culture Centre
The Ghunmarn Culture Centre, opened in 2007, displays local artworks, prints, carvings, weavings and didgeridoos from western Arnhem Land. The centre also features the Blanasi Collection, a permanent exhibition of works by elders from the western Arnhem Land region. Visitors are we
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Scienceworks
Scienceworks & Melbourne Planetarium incorporates three historic buildings and keeps inquisitive grey matter occupied with interactive displays. Figure out the mysteries of the universe (or your own anatomy) by poking buttons, pulling levers, lifting flaps and learning all sort
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Riddoch Art Gallery
If Mt Gambiers famed Blue Lake isnt blue, dont feel blue 鈭?cheer yourself up at one of Australias best regional galleries. There are three galleries housing touring and permanent exhibitions, contemporary installations, community displays. In the same Main Corner complex are herita
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Trowunna Wildlife Park
About 5km east of Mole Creek on the B12 road, and 2km west of Chudleigh, is the first-rate Trowunna Wildlife Park, which specialises in Tasmanian devils, wombats and koalas, as well as birds. There鈥檚 an informative tour, during which you get to pat, feed or even hold some of the wi
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New Farm Park
New Farm Park, on the tail end of Brunswick St by the river, is a large, open parkland with picnic areas and gas barbecues, jacaranda trees, rose gardens and free wif-fi. The amazing playground here 鈥?a Crusoe-esque series of platforms amongst some vast Moreton Bay figs trees 鈥?is
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Garrison Church
Also known as Holy Trinity (1843), this chunky sandstone Anglican church on the western side of the Argyle Cut was the colony鈥檚 first military church. Below a dark timber ceiling, the hushed interior is spangled with dusty, lank-hanging regimental flags. Australia鈥檚 first prime min
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Convent Gallery
This beautiful 19th-century convent on Wombat Hill has been brilliantly converted into an art gallery with soaring ceilings, grand archways and magnificent gardens. Head up the path in the gardens behind the convent for sweeping views over the town. Theres also an atrium cafe, bar
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Brickpit Ring Walk
This brightly coloured circular walkway is supported by what look like metal chopsticks, lifting it 18m above the water filling an abandoned brickworks. Three billion bricks were made here between 1911 and 1988. Built into the loop are multimedia exhibits about the brick workers an
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Adelaide House
Built in the 1920s as the Australian Inland Mission hospital, Adelaide House was the first hospital in central Australia. Designed by the founding flying doctor Reverend John Flynn, it now displays photographs and implements of pioneering medical practice. At the rear of the buildi
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Illawarra Fly
There are spectacular views from this 500m viewing tower and Treetop Walk amid the rainforest canopy at the top of the escarpment, 25km west of town. Recently added is an exciting zipline (adult/child $75/45); the cost of the zipline includes entry to the viewing tower and Treetop
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Argyle Place
A quiet, English-style village green lined with terraced houses, Argyle Pl offers the sacred appeal of the Garrison Church and the more secular delights of the Lord Nelson Brewery Hotel . Both the Lord Nelson and the Hero of Waterloo hotel, a block north, lay claim to being Sydneys
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Rockys Hall of Fame Pioneers Museum
Country music is a big deal in Barmera, with the South Australian Country Music Festival & Awards happening here in June, and Rockys Museum blaring sincere rural twangings down the main street from outdoor speakers. Dont miss the 35m Botanical Garden Guitar out the back, inlaid
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Christ Church Cathedral
Dominating the city skyline, Newcastles Anglican cathedral (built 1892) is filled with treasures like a gold chalice and remembrance book set with precious stones, made from jewellery donated by locals who lost loved ones in WWI. The self-guided tour brochure offers an insight into
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Fort Queenscliff
Queensliffs fort was first used as a coastal defence in 1882 to protect Melbourne from a feared Russian invasion. It remained a base until 1946, before being used as the Army Staff College until late 2012; today it functions as the defence archive centre. The 30-minute guided tours
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Dolphin Point
This grassy tract at Coogee Beach鈥檚 northern end has superb ocean views and the Giles Baths ocean pool. A sobering shrine commemorates the 2002 Bali bombings. Coogee was hit hard by the tragedy, with 20 of the 89 Australians killed coming from hereabouts. The parks name was changed
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Waltzing Matilda Centre
Burned down in June 2015, the town vows to rebuild what was a windmill and a statue of Banjo Paterson outside this visitor centre, museum and gallery. Exhibits included an indoor billabong scene complete with a squatter, troopers and a jolly swagman. The centre also housed the Qant
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Kryal Castle
It may be kitsch but the kids will love a day out at this mock medieval castle and self-styled medieval adventure park. Knights and damsels in distress wander the grounds and theres everything from a Dragons Labyrinth and Wizards Workshop to jousting re-enactments and a torture dun
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Lighthouses & Shipwrecks
Drive right up to the tallest lighthouse in the southern hemisphere at Cape Wickham . This 48m tower was built in 1861 after several ships had been wrecked on the islands treacherous coastline. The Currie Lighthouse was built in 1880, and there are more lighthouses at Stokes Point
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Wheeler Centre
This centre is a celebration of Unescos 2008 acknowledgment of Melbourne as an international City of Literature, with a variety of programs and speakers (usually writers) throughout the year. Its free weekly Lunchbox/Soapbox sessions make for a great lunchtime diversion; check onli
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Murramarang National Park
This beautiful 12,386-hectare coastal park is home to wild kangaroos, rich birdlife and the protected Murramarang Aboriginal Area , which contains ancient middens and indigenous cultural treasures.Wasp Head , Depot , Pebbly and Merry Beaches are popular with surfers. Walking trails
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