Iconic works from the Guggenheim Museum collections are on display at Melbourne's National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) International from June 30 to October 7. The exhibition, Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now, ... Read More

Seconds after 9.33pm on June 29, 2007, Australian eastern standard time, the Australian population was estimated to have hit the 21-million mark. The population milestone announced by the Australian Bureau of ... Read More

Iconic Sydney Opera House was today added to the World Heritage list by the World Heritage committee meeting in Christchurch, New Zealand. Australia now has 17 World Heritage-listed sites, ranging from ... Read More

Yulefest is in full swing in the mountains and Christmas fare is on the table. It has now become traditional to celebrate Yulelfest in the Blue Mountains not in December ... Read More

It runs 2000 kilometres off the coast of northern Queensland and is Australia's most notable underwater wonderland. It's the Great Barrier Reef, of course, and the reefs and resort islands ... Read More

You'll what? You'll ara? Yes, Yulara. That's the resort town less than 20 kilometres north of that iconic rock monolith Uluru in the heart of Australia. It's a self-contained town ... Read More

Australian bushranger Ned Kelly, whose life and times were the subject of a film starring Heath Ledger, has become a folk hero not only in the Victorian region of his ... Read More

Nemo (Finding Nemo), Sulley (Monsters, Inc), Flik (A Bug's Life), Buzz Lightyear and Woody (Toy Story, Toy Story 2) feature in a Melbourne exhibition of Pixar animation artworks and installations. The ... Read More

On the New South Wales North Coast, Port Macquarie is a holiday destination of particular attraction to lovers of water sports and leisure activities. It's four and a half hours ... Read More

Caves and blackwater rafting: Come down into the bowels of the earth and on a dark, night-black river, catch a vision of a starry sky... Photo: Waitomo Glow-Worm Cave © Tourism ... Read More

Australian actress Nicole Kidman, on location in Bowen, Queensland, where director Baz Luhrmann is filming his epic movie Australia, is marking her birthday today. She was in Sydney at the weekend ... Read More

On the western coast of Western Australia, Shark Bay is a World Heritage site and home to dugongs, dolphins and stromatolites. It's a fascinating aquatic world, a diver's paradise (where diving ... Read More

Victoria's ski slopes are closer to Melbourne than New South Wales ones are to Sydney. When in Melbourne in winter, take time to head to the high country for skiing ... Read More

If you're not into skiing or other winter things, should you go north for warmer weather? There are people who go to the Queensland Gold Coast in the winter and ... Read More

Particularly in the southern winter when greater snowfall is expected, the road to the top of Tasmania's Mt Wellington may be closed. The mountain peak is no more than 22 kilometres ... Read More

The Grimm brothers' story of The Wilful Child is presented in dance by Chunky Move and Arts House in North Melbourne from June 22 to 24. EigenSinn (The Wilful Child) is ... Read More

There's much of history in the Victorian goldfields and much to visit in Ballarat, Victoria's largest inland city. Experience colonial times and the search for gold at Sovereign Hill... feel ... Read More

It's not only circus aerialists who fly through the air with the greatest of ease. Skiiers and snowboarders now give them strong competition. As freestyle skiing and snowboarding continue to ... Read More

Well, here's your chance to exhibit your superior knowledge. This quiz is all about Sydney locations and landmarks and related topics. Just 10 questions, so it should be a quick quiz. If ... Read More

In Australia, yes, it's the Queen's Birthday holiday today in the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria. (Well, no, it's not really ... Read More

Sydney has its tourist-oriented Red Explorer Bus (and the Blue Explorer Bus, too) and Melbourne has the City Tourist Shuttle (and the City Circle Tram, too). All these are hop on, ... Read More

...unless it's stormy weather This long weekend of the Queen's Birthday holiday, hope for good weather in Sydney and jazz up your life at the Darling Harbour Jazz and Blues Festival. But ... Read More

The Australian premiere of the Shelagh Stephenson play, Enlightenment, is being staged at the Fairfax Studio of Melbourne's Art Centre until July 21. The current production stars Sarah Peirse and Nicholas ... Read More

The Bangarra Dance Theatre production of True Stories opens at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre, across the river from the heart of the city, at Brisbane's South Bank. Contemporary indigenous dance ... Read More

The 54th Sydney Festival takes place this month from June 8 to 24, screening contemporary movies from Australia and around the world. Screening 290 films from more than 50 countries, the ... Read More

You wouldn't know it's winter in Australia when you're in tropical Queensland. For those seeking to escape the winter cold, the Great Barrier Reef and its islands beckon. Along the Tropic ... Read More

What better way to ward off the winter cold than imbibing a drop of wine or two? Visit Australia's wine regions to sample the range of wines now served among ... Read More

A road by any other name would probably be as grand. One of my favorite stretches of road, Lawrence Hargrave Drive — from Bald Hill at the southern end of ... Read More

Sydney's original Little Italy becomes an Italian piazza this Sunday when Sydney's Italian heritage, manifested in food, song and tradition, is celebrated in the Primo Italiano Festival. The festival takes place ... Read More

The snow has been falling in the New South Wales and Victorian Alps and, yes, winter is definitely and officially here. The ski season which traditionally opens on the Queen's Birthday ... Read More