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Practical Practical Australia — visas, distances and the biosecurity you must not ignore

A country the size of Europe with 27 million people, three time zones that become five in summer, and the strictest bor…

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Food & Drink Australian wine — the oldest Shiraz vines on earth

Vines planted in 1843 still bearing fruit, a wine made in secret after the board banned it, and the country that put th…

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Culture Aboriginal Australia — 65,000 years of continuous culture

The oldest living culture on earth, more than 250 languages before colonisation, and rock art older than the pyramids b…

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Regions Queensland — where the oldest rainforest on earth meets the reef

A forest 180 million years old runs down to a beach, and it is the only place on the planet where two natural World Her…

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Nature Australian wildlife — marsupials, monotremes and the venom question

Eighty-seven percent of the mammals live nowhere else, one lays eggs, and the animals that actually hurt people are not…

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Regions Tasmania — wilderness, Hobart and the last thylacine

A fifth of the island is World Heritage wilderness, the air is measurably the cleanest on earth, and a museum sits unde…

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Food & Drink Australian food — bush tucker, seafood and the coffee that beat Starbucks

A plum with a hundred times the vitamin C of a lemon, 270 million meat pies a year, and a café culture that saw off a g…

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Nature Uluru and Kata Tjuta — the Red Centre and its traditional owners

A rock 348 metres high that reaches two and a half kilometres underground, and the people who have read it as law for m…

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Routes The Great Ocean Road — a war memorial 243 kilometres long

Built by three thousand returning soldiers, it passes limestone stacks that lose two centimetres a year to the sea.

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Cities Melbourne — laneways, coffee and a city that lives for sport

The world's largest tram network, a coffee culture built by post-war migrants, and a stadium that holds a hundred thous…

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Cities Sydney — the Opera House, the Bridge and the harbour that shaped a city

A roof of a million tiles, a bridge nicknamed the Coathanger, and one of the largest natural harbours on earth.

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Nature The Great Barrier Reef — the largest living structure on earth

Two thousand three hundred kilometres of coral, 1,625 species of fish, and a system under measurable strain.

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