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Canberra Museum & Gallery
This stylish museum and gallery is ostensibly devoted to Canberras social history and visual arts, but is most notable for its collection of iconic works by Sidney Nolan, best known for his series of paintings of 19th-century bushranger Ned Kelly.
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Blackbutt Reserve
Sitting in a tract of bushland with plenty of walking trails and picnic areas, this council-run reserve has enclosures of native critters: koalas, wallabies, wombats and a cacophonic chorus of native birds. Its a short walk from Kotara train station.
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Belmore Basin
Wollongong鈥檚 fishing fleet is based at the harbours southern end. The basin was cut from solid rock in 1868. There鈥檚 a fishing cooperative and an old lighthouse (built in 1872) on the point. Nearby, on the headland, is the newer Breakwater Lighthouse .
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Richmond Gaol Historic Site
The northern wing of the remarkably well-preserved jail was built in 1825, five years before the penitentiary at Port Arthur, making it Australias oldest jail. And like Port Arthur, fascinating historic insights abound, but the mood is pretty sombre.
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Ned Kelly Museum & Homestead
Behind Kate鈥檚 Cottage with the same owners, youll find this museum displaying Kelly memorabilia and artefacts gathered from all over the district, plus a replica of the Kelly home. An undercover picnic area make it a welcome stop just off the Hume.
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Ken Done Gallery
The cheerful, quasi-childlike work of Sydney artist Ken Done is exhibited inside the lavishly restored Australian Steam Navigation Building. Expect luridly coloured Australian landscapes, Opera House renderings and comic minutiae from Done鈥檚 days.
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Friendly Beaches
This windswept ocean beach is signposted from the main road about 26km north of Coles Bay. A five-minute walk leads from the car park to a vantage point: tumbling surf, an abandoned stretch of sand and views seemingly all the way to New Zealand.
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Water Tower
As you enter town from the north youll see this castle-like red-brick water tower (1896), which encloses a convict-dug tunnel designed to supply water to the town. Theres still 80,000L inside, maintaining pressure on the walls so they dont collapse.
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Loopline Railway Museum
The Loopline railway was once the most important urban transport for Kalgoorlie and Boulder, and Boulder鈥檚 Golden Mile station (1897) once the busiest in WA. Its story is told in the Loopline railway museum , operating out of the old train station.
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Manly Art Gallery & Museum
A short stroll from Manly Wharf, this passionately managed community gallery maintains a local focus, with exhibits of surfcraft, camp swimwear and beachy bits and pieces. There鈥檚 also a ceramics gallery, and lots of old Manly photos to peer at.
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Old Gaol
Opposite the Albany Residency Museum, the 1851 Old Gaol was constructed as a hiring depot for ticket-of-leave convicts. Most were in private employment by 1855, so it was closed until 1872, when it reopened as a civil gaol. These days it鈥檚 a folk museum.
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Museum
Mt Barker has been settled since the 1830s and the convict-built 1868 police station and gaol have been preserved as a museum.
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Gippsland Regional Maritime Museum
The Gippsland Regional Maritime Museum, in the old Bank of Victoria (1861), will give you an insight into the highlights of Port Albert鈥檚 maritime history, with stories of shipwrecks, the town鈥檚 whaling and sealing days, and local Aboriginal legends.
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Gleadell Street Market
Buy a bag of nuts and shuffle past the fish caravan, the spruiking stallholders and hundreds of locals laden with a week鈥檚 worth of fruit and veg. This little open-air market is a genuine community experience, and a terrific start to any Saturday.
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Franklin House
Just south of the city, Franklin House is one of Launceston鈥檚 most fetching Georgian homes. Built in 1838 by reformed convict and savvy businessman Britton Jones, it鈥檚 now fully restored, furnished and managed by the National Trust. Reduced winter hours.
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Everglades
The passage of the Noosa River that cuts into the Great Sandy National Park is poetically known as the 鈥榬iver of mirrors鈥?or the Everglades. It鈥檚 a great place to launch a kayak and camp in one of the many national park campgrounds along the riverbank.
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Boom Gallery
Down an industrial street off Pakington St, Booms warehouse space in an old wool mill shows contemporary works by Melbourne and local artists. It sells great design objects and jewellery, and the attached cafe does fantastic coffee and seasonal food.
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Wilderness Gallery
At the Cradle Mountain Hotel complex, on the road into Cradle Mountain, this impressive gallery showcases incredible environmental photography. It also has a fascinating Tasmanian Tiger Exhibition , complete with the only thylacine-skin rug in existence.
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Worsley Cottage
Built in 1894, Worsley Cottage is the local historical society museum. Every room is furnished with pieces from the times, often donated by local people, and there鈥檚 a large photographic collection. Records held here are used in family history research.
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Yering Station
Taste wines in the original 1859 winery, then take in the view from the upstairs cafe and buy up in the produce store. Walk through the lovely grounds to the modern fine-dining restaurant. The Yarra Valley Farmers鈥?Market is held here every third Sunday.
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