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Japanese Garden
Built as a token of Cowras connection with Japanese POWs (but with no overt mention of the war or the breakout), this tranquil 5-hectare garden and attached cultural centre are superby presented and well worth visiting (albeit with a steep entry fee). Audio guides ($2) explain the
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Museum of Brisbane
Inside Brisbanes renovated City Hall, this excellent little museum illuminates the city from a variety of viewpoints, with interactive exhibits exploring both social history and the current cultural landscape. When we visited, the three long-term exhibits were a fabulous display on
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Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery
Launcestons brilliant QVMAG spreads itself over two locations: the meticulously restored art gallery (colonial painting and decorative arts) on the edge of Royal Park; and the natural, social and technology-focused collections at the museum at the Inveresk Railyards . The buildings
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Paronella Park
Self-made Spanish immigrant Jos茅 Paronella built Paronella Park as a gift to his wife Margarita. He opened the incongruously sited property and pleasure gardens to a grateful public shortly after their construction. He died in 1948, and the park is now privately owned and National
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Port of Echuca Discovery Centre
At the northern end of Murray Esplanade, the stunning new Port of Echuca Discovery Centre is your gateway to the Echuca Wharf area, with excellent displays (some of them interactive) on the ports history, the paddle steamers and the riverboat trade. Guided tours set out from the di
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Brisbane Powerhouse
On the eastern flank of New Farm Park stands the Powerhouse, a once-derelict power station that鈥檚 been superbly transformed into a contemporary arts centre. Inside the brick husk are graffiti remnants, pieces of industrial machinery and lights made from old electrical transformers.
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Royal Exhibition Building
Built for the International Exhibition in 1880, and winning Unesco World Heritage status in 2004, this beautiful Victorian edifice symbolises the glory days of the Industrial Revolution, the British Empire and 19th-century Melbourne鈥檚 economic supremacy. It was the first building
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Melbourne Museum
This museum provides a grand sweep of Victoria鈥檚 natural and cultural histories, with exhibitions covering everything from dinosaur fossils and giant squid specimens to the taxidermy hall, a 3D volcano and an open-air forest atrium of Victorian flora. Become immersed in the legend
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Golden Dragon Museum & Gardens
Bendigo鈥檚 obvious Chinese heritage sets it apart from other goldfields towns, and this fantastic museum and garden is the place to experience it. Walk through a huge wooden door into an awesome chamber filled with dragons, including the Imperial Dragons Old Loong (the oldest in the
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Central Deborah Goldmine
For a very deep experience, descend into this 500m-deep mine with a geologist. The mine has been worked on 17 levels, and about 1 tonne of gold has been removed. After donning hard hats and lights, you鈥檙e taken down the shaft to inspect the operations, complete with drilling demons
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Apple Shed
At Grove, 6km north of Huonville, this revamped cafe/providore/museum is home to Willie Smiths Organic Apple Cider, at the fore of the cider wave thats been sweeping Australias pubs and bars of late. Swing by for a coffee, a cheese plate, meals (mains $7 to $24), a cider tasting pa
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Yuraygir National Park
This 200-sq-km park covers the 60km stretch of coast north from Red Rock. The isolated beaches are outstanding and there are some bushwalking paths where you can view endangered coastal emus. Walkers can bush camp in basic camp sites (adult/child $10/5 per night) at Station Creek
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Mossman Gorge
In the southeast corner of Daintree National Park, 5km west of Mossman town, Mossman Gorge forms part of the traditional lands of the Kuku Yalanji Indigenous people. Carved by the Mossman River, the gorge is a boulder-strewn valley where sparkling water washes over ancient rocks. W
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Mitchell Falls
Leave early if walking to Punamii-unpuu. The easy trail (8.6km return) meanders through spinifex, woodlands and gorge country, dotted with Wandjina and Gwion Gwion rock art sites, secluded waterholes, lizards, wallabies and brolga. Most people will complete the walk in three hours
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Historic Village Herberton
A must-see on any comprehensive Tablelands trip is this fascinating and unique village, comprised of over 50 heritage buildings, restored and relocated to their current location. Exhibits range from the school to the sawmill, the bank to the Bishops house, the coach-house to the ca
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Elizabeth Bay House
Now dwarfed by 20th-century apartments, Colonial Secretary Alexander Macleays elegant Greek Revival mansion was one of the finest houses in the colony when it was completed in 1839. The architectural highlight is an exquisite oval entrance saloon with a curved and cantilevered stai
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Taronga Western Plains Zoo
This is Dubbos star attraction, not to mention one of the best zoos in regional Australia. You can walk the 6km circuit, hire a bike ($15) or drive your car, getting out at enclosures along the way. Guided walks (adult/child $15/7.50) start at 6.45am on weekends (additional days in
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National Gallery of Australia
Includes an extraordinary Aboriginal Memorial from Central Arnhem Land created for Australias 1988 bicentenary. The work of 43 artists, this forest of souls presents 200 hollow log coffins (one for every year of European settlement) and is part of an excellent collection of Aborigi
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Nambung National Park
Situated 19km from Cervantes, Nambung is home to the spectacular Pinnacles Desert , a vast, alien-like plain studded with thousands of limestone pillars. Rising eerily from the desert floor, the pillars are remnants of compacted seashells that once covered the plain and, over mille
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Montague Island (Baranguba)
Nine kilometres offshore from Narooma, this small, pest-free island is home to seabirds and fur seals. Little penguins nest here, especially from September to February.Three-hour guided tours conducted by NPWS rangers are dependent on numbers and weather conditions, so book ahead t
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