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Spotlight
Discover Historic Silverton
Just 24-kilometres west of Broken Hill, Silverton is a former 'ghost town' now enjoying its renewed popularity with tour... [
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Silverton
Queensland's Gemfields
Throughout much of the 19th-Century, Queensland's Central Highlands region was making a name for itself as a 'gem field'... [
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Queensland
Waitangi Treaty Grounds
The Waitangi Treaty Grounds in the spectacular Bay of Islands on New Zealand's north island are the site of the signing ... [
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Porcupine Flat Dredge and Drag Line
It's not the most picturesque spot for a family picnic but photographers and history buffs visiting central Victoria wil... [
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Victoria
Road Trip WA - The Great Southwest
Western Australia's magnificent south-west really does have it all. Wine, fabulous food, great beaches, spectacular fore... [
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Western Australia
Welcome to Barwon Heads
Barwon Heads is a small coastal township on Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula, on the west bank of the Barwon River estuary... [
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Bellarine Peninsula
The Town of 1770
Seventeen Seventy, also known as The Town of 1770 is a small coastal township and popular holiday destination just under... [
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Airlie Beach
Airlie Beach is the major tourism hub and mainland entry point to Queensland's magnificent Whitsunday region. Air... [
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Queensland
Discover the Limestone Coast
South Australia's Limestone Coast extends from the Coorong National Park in the north to Port MacDonnell in the south. ... [
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South Australia
Discover Longreach
Longreach, in central west Queensland, is an Australian outback icon, literally born on the back of the aspirations of t... [
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Queensland
Bundaberg Rum Tour
Bundaberg Rum Distillery was established in 1888 when a group of seven locals joined forces to take the by-product of th... [
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Queensland
10 Top Victorian Goldfields Heritage Sites
The Victorian gold rush generated enormous wealth and shaped the future of the state. Here are 10 goldfield heritage si... [
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Victoria
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Near Melbourne
New Zealand's Top-10 North Island Destinations
With the New Zealand travel bubble likely to be the only international travel destination open to Australians for a good... [
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Near Auckland
Dunkeld, Southern Gateway to The Grampians
Dunkeld in western Victoria is one of those places you might drive through on your way to any number of destinations wit... [
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Victoria
Andersons Mill, Smeaton
If you're looking for a picturesque, quiet picnic spot with a splash of history about it, look no further than Andersons... [
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Victoria
Great Keppel Island Day Trip
There was a time when Great Keppel Island was home to one of Australia's best tropical resorts, a sun-drenched paradise ... [
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Near Yeppoon
Good Beer Week 2021
Good Beer Week is back in 2021 running from Friday 14th to Sunday 23rd of May at the Festival Hub, Beer De Luxe in Feder... [
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14/05/2021 - 23/05/2021
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Melbourne City
Holbrook Submarine Museum
As the crow flies Holbrook, New South Wales is about 260-kilometres from the nearest ocean, something first-time visitor... [
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New South Wales
Ballarat Heritage Festival 2021
There are few places in Victoria with more history and heritage to celebrate than Ballarat and the Ballarat Heritage Fes... [
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07/05/2021 - 30/05/2021
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Near Melbourne
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Victoria
Barcaldine, Queensland
Barcaldine is a Queensland pastoral centre and former prominent railhead 1,072-Kilometres northwest of Brisbane and 108-... [
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Queensland
Lake Maraboon Holiday Village
Lake Maraboon in central west Queensland is a huge tract of water and, stocked as it is with 8 different species, includ... [
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Queensland
Beachport Naval Mine Memorial
Just out of Beachport, South Australia, on the shores of picturesque Rivoli Bay, you'll find a memorial to the first Aus... [
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Near Adelaide
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South Australia
Woodlands Historic Homestead and Living Legends
Woodlands Historic Park at Greenvale, just a few minutes north of Melbourne Airport was established in 1980. Covering 70... [
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Greenvale
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Outer North Melbourne
Fitzroy Gardens
Fitzroy Gardens are an icon that every Melburnian can relate to, something that's been there forever. I can remember vi... [
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Melbourne City
Port Albert Maritime Museum
There could be few places better credentialed to house a first-class maritime museum than Port Albert on Victoria's Sout... [
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Near Melbourne
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Victoria
The Historic Port of Echuca
As a baby-boomer growing up in Melbourne in the '60s, one of the joys of black & white television was Riverboat, a weekl... [
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Near Melbourne
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Victoria
Murray River Houseboat Holidays
If social distancing and COVID safe self-isolation are high on your list of holiday pre-requisites these days, there can... [
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Near Melbourne
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Victoria
Victorian Caravan, Camping and Touring Supershow
The return of the annual Victorian Caravan, Camping and Touring Supershow is a sure sign that the State and the industry... [
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13/05/2021 - 16/05/2021
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Win Stuff
South East Melbourne
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Springvale
The Australian National Maritime Museum
Darling Harbour is, when you think about it, a fitting spot to house the Australian National Maritime Museum - just arou... [
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Darling Harbour
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Sydney City
Bendigo's Historic Talking Trams
One of the first things you'll notice about Bendigo in central Victoria is the tram tracks running up the centre of the ... [
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Victoria
Victoria's Macedon Ranges
Less than an hour north of Melbourne via the Calder Freeway, Mount Macedon is the prominent peak and centrepiece of the ... [
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Victoria
Melbourne's Tall Ship ENTERPRIZE
Melbourne's own tall ship, the topsail schooner ENTERPRIZE is a replica of the vessel that transported the first settler... [
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South West Melbourne
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Williamstown
HMAS Castlemaine Museum
There's something special about a museum which is itself housed in the primary exhibit. To say that HMAS CASTLEMAINE ... [
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South West Melbourne
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Williamstown
Charleville's Steiger Vortex Rainmaking Guns
They may look like the aftermath of a failed attempt at modern sculpture but Charleville's cone-shaped Steiger Vortex Gu... [
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Queensland
Tiger Moth World Flights
Imagine yourself dressed in a heavy leather flying jacket, helmet & goggles and strapped into the open cockpit of a beau... [
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Vintage and Retro
Near Melbourne
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Victoria
The Crags Coastal Reserve
The Crags Coastal Reserve is a scenic, often blustery section of Victoria's west coast and for thousands of years was a ... [
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Lookouts
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Near Melbourne
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Victoria
St Kilda Pier Kiosk
Initially known as 'Parers Pavilion', the St Kilda Pier Kiosk was built in 1904, based on a design by James Charles More... [
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South East Melbourne
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St Kilda
Geelong's Colourful Carved Bollards
Geelong's colourful and intriguing Waterfront Bollard Trail is just one of the attractions bringing post-COVID visitors ... [
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Geelong
Discover Creswick, Victoria
The township of Creswick in Victoria's central goldfields has known both boom times and tragedy. Located 18-kilometre... [
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Victoria
Mount Macedon's Blaze of Autumn Colour
Well, summer certainly hasn't been anything to write home about this year but the unusually high rainfall over the past ... [
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Victoria
Out and About in Williamstown
The story of Williamstown really is one of two totally different entities that combine to make it one of Melbourne's mos... [
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Williamstown
Big Tree Gin Distillery
One of the great joys of life, for me anyway, is to sit back and relax in a remote, quiet location anywhere in Australia... [
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Unusual Things to do
Near Melbourne
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Victoria
Sovereign Hill Reopens - Summer 2020/21
If you're a fan of Sovereign Hill, you'll be pleased to know that the Grand Dame of Victorian tourism icons is about to ... [
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Near Melbourne
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Victoria
Gippsland Lakes
The great thing about the Gippsland Lakes is that they're one of those places where you can do a little or a lot of any ... [
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Lists
Near Melbourne
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Victoria
Top 5 Macedon Ranges Wineries
Located less than an hour from Melbourne and with vineyards ranging between 300 and 800 metres above sea level, the Mace... [
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Lists
Victoria
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Near Melbourne
All Aboard Victorian Goldfields Railway
The Victorian Goldfields Railway provides an intriguing link to the States gold rush history around the city of Castlema... [
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Railway Journeys
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Trains
Near Melbourne
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Victoria
Top 5 Great Victorian Lookouts
With some State borders closed due to Covid-19 and uncertainty surrounding the opening of others, there's never been a b... [
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Near Melbourne
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Victoria
Out and About in Anglesea
Anglesea, at the mouth of the Anglesea River and straddling the Great Ocean Road, is the first point west of the roads o... [
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Weekend Escapes
Near Melbourne
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Victoria
Adventures in Paradise - Cruising The Whitsundays
I think I've stumbled on the answer to self-isolation for wife Janet and I during the current corona virus crisis – four... [
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Adventure
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Beaches
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Boating
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Family
Victorian Central Goldfields Top-10 Attractions
There really is a little bit of everything in Victoria's Central Goldfields, making anywhere in the district a great 'ge... [
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Near Melbourne
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Victoria
High Flying Longreach - The QANTAS Founders Museum
2020 celebrates 100 years of operations by QANTAS and nowhere commemorates our great airline quite like the QANTAS Found... [
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Queensland
Fabulous Beechworth
In 1851, the Mayday Hills district in Victoria's far north-east was a remote grazing run nestled in the foothills of the... [
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High Country
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Near Melbourne
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Victoria
Victoria's Great South West - Discovery Bay and Lower Glenelg
Down in Victoria's far southwest, you'll find a little piece of paradise. A stretch of shoreline where the Shipwreck Co... [
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Near Melbourne
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Victoria
We're Off to Beachport, SA
Beachport is a coastal village on South Australia's magnificent Limestone Coast. We were heading there on the advice of... [
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Near Adelaide
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South Australia
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South East
Highways & Byways - Victoria's Burke and Wills Track
As road-trips go the Burke & Wills Track doesn't rate, not much more than a milk-run really at just over 36-Kilometres. ... [
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Food and Wine
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Wineries
Near Melbourne
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Victoria
Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame
You'll find the Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame and Outback Heritage Centre at Longreach in central west Queensland, ... [
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Queensland
Next Stop Penola, South Australia
Penola is a small town in the far south-east of South Australia, at the centre of the Coonawarra wine-growing district b... [
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Historic Houses
Near Adelaide
Let's Go to Robe SA
The unofficial capital of the Limestone Coast Robe was once a busy seaport. Today it's a hugely popular holiday destina... [
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Food and Wine
Near Adelaide
Renmark - The Heart of South Australia's Riverland
South Australia's Riverland region spans a 360-Kilometre stretch of the Murray River from the Victoria/New South Wales b... [
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Boating
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Food and Wine
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Near Renmark
Destination Broken Hill
You'll find Broken Hill in the far southwest of New South Wales. 1,145-kilometres from Sydney, 840 from Melbourne and 5... [
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Travel
Autumn in the Macedon Ranges
It's early days yet but after a long, hot and, in some places, tragic summer, Victorians are eagerly awaiting autumn and... [
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Family
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Gardens
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Picnic Spots
Near Melbourne
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Victoria
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