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Western Australian Museum 鈥?Geraldton
At one of the states best museums, intelligent multimedia displays relate the areas natural, cultural and Indigenous history. The Shipwreck Gallery documents the tragic story of the Batavia, while video footage reveals the sunken HMAS Sydney II . Enquire about sailing open days hel
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Bendigo Art Gallery
One of Victoria鈥檚 finest regional galleries, the permanent collection here includes outstanding colonial and contemporary Australian art. The annual temporary exhibitions are cutting edge and have been an important part of Bendigos renaissance. The Gallery Caf茅 overlooks Rosalind P
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Manly Beach
Sydneys second most famous beach stretches for nearly two golden kilometres, lined by Norfolk Island pines and scrappy midrise apartment blocks. The southern end of the beach, nearest the Corso, is known as South Steyne, with North Steyne in the centre and Queenscliff at the northe
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TarraWarra Museum of Art
In a striking building at TarraWarra Estate, this excellent gallery showcases Australian art from the 1950s onwards and features regularly changing, Australian and international contemporary art exhibitions. The rotating permanent collection includes work from heavyweights Arthur B
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Royal Flying Doctor Service
This iconic Australian institution has a visitor centre at the airport. There are stirring displays and stories of health innovation and derring-do in the service of those who live and work in remote places (note: this base serves a staggeringly vast area of 640,000 sq km). Its a r
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Chambers of the Black Hand
This place is remarkable, and symbolises the crazy and creative sides of the Ridge. Artist and miner Ron Canlin has turned a 40ft-deep mining claim into a cavernous gallery of carvings and paintings: superheroes, celebrities, pharaohs, Buddhas, animals, you name it. Call to confirm
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Australian Fossil & Mineral Museum
Dont let the dry name fool you 鈥?this place is a treasure chest full of wonder. Its home to the internationally renowned Somerville Collection: rare fossils, plus gemstones and minerals in every colour of the rainbow (amethysts, diamonds, rubies, ancient insects frozen in amber). T
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Botanic Gardens
It鈥檚 worth a walk to the Botanic Gardens, established by Baron Ferdinand von Mueller in the 1860s, beside the Campaspe River.
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Gallery of Modern Art
All angular glass, concrete and black metal, must-see GOMA focuses on Australian art from the 1970s to today. Continually changing and often confronting, exhibits range from painting, sculpture and photography to video, installation and film. There鈥檚 also an arty bookshop, kids鈥?ac
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Banrock Station Wine & Wetland Centre
Overlooking regenerated, feral-proofed wetlands off the Sturt Hwy at Kingston OM, carbon-neutral Banrock Station Wine & Wetland Centre is a stylish, rammed-earth wine-tasting centre (love the tempranillo). Ther jazzy lunchtime restaurant (mains $20 to $30 鈭?try the Banrock pizz
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Fort Scratchley
Perched above Newcastle Harbour, this fascinating military site was constructed during the Crimean War to protect the city against a feared Russian invasion. During WWII the fort returned fire on a Japanese submarine, making it the only Australian fort to have engaged in a maritime
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Iron House Brewery
Has all this beach time left you thirsty? Quench yourself 16km south of Scamander at Iron House, a craft brewery producing flavoursome pale ale, lager, wheat beer, stout, pilsner and porter. The brewery is part of White Sands Estate 鈥?a fancy accommodation set-up 鈥?but beer is why
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Chinese Garden of Friendship
Built according to Taoist principles, the Chinese Garden of Friendship is usually an oasis of tranquillity 鈥?although construction noise from Darling Harbours redevelopment can intrude from time to time. Designed by architects from Guangzhou (Sydney鈥檚 sister city) for Australia鈥檚 b
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Farm Gate Market
Salamanca Market on the waterfront has been a success for decades, but this hyperactive new foodie street-mart might just give it a run for its money. Trading commences with the ding of a big brass bell at 9am. Elbow your way in for the best buys, or take your time to browse the fr
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Hosier Lane
Melbournes most celebrated laneway for street art, Hosier Lanes cobbled length draws camera-wielding crowds snapping edgy graffiti, stencils and art installations. Subject matter runs to the mostly political and counter-culture, spiced with irreverent humour; pieces change almost d
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Art Gallery of South Australia
Spend a few hushed hours in the vaulted, parquetry-floored gallery that represents the big names in Australian art. Permanent exhibitions include Australian, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Asian, European and North American art (20 bronze Rodins!). Progressive visiting exhi
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Muttonbird Island
The Gumbainggir people knew this island as Giidany Miirlarl, meaning Place of the Moon. It was joined to Coffs Harbour by the northern breakwater in 1935. The walk to the top (quite steep at the end) provides sweeping vistas. From late August to early April this eco treasure is occ
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Bicheno Motorcycle Museum
Andrew Quin got his first Honda at four years of age, and since then he鈥檚 been hooked on motorbikes. You don鈥檛 have to be an aficionado, though, to visit his wonderful little museum out the back of his bike-repair shop. It鈥檚 all shiny chrome and enamel under the bright lights here,
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Milawa Cheese Company
About 2km north of Milawa, Milawa Cheese Company is our favourite produce store. From humble origins, it now produces a mouth-watering array of cheeses to sample or buy. It excels at soft farmhouse brie (from goat or cow) and pungent washed-rind cheeses. There鈥檚 a bakery here and a
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Central Market
Satisfy both obvious and obscure culinary cravings at the 250-odd stalls in Adelaide鈥檚 superb Central Market. A sliver of salami from the Mettwurst Shop, a crumb of English Stilton from the Smelly Cheese Shop, a tub of blueberry yogurt from the Yoghurt Shop 鈭?you name it, it鈥檚 here
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