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In the Victorian gold rush city of Bendigo, Russell Jack, Chinese Australian community leader, has never let the lack of a few million stand between him and his vision. The museum that Jack built is home to the world's oldest and longest Chinese imperial dragons. |
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Within another year this dusty ribbon of gravel will become another busy touring route for weekend warriors, when the last stretch across the high plains is tar-sealed. Now is the time to experience the magic... |
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Melbourne’s Coastal Art Trail around Port Phillip Bay celebrates the generations of Australian artists who have painted our favourite coastal landscapes. |
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Test-driving a gutsy Volkswagen EOS convertible along Victoria’s Ocean Road is a real challenge. |
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Fiona Harper questions the wisdom of the old proverb 'it is better to travel than to arrive' after a coastal passage that ends in Melbourne's Docklands district. |
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You need a holiday - well, maybe Spot (or Fido or Tiddles) does too. Sheriden Rhodes takes a tour of some pet friendly places that have all earned a paw star rating! |
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At Echuca, where the Campaspe and the Goulburn run into the mighty Murray, floods –and drought – were always been a way of life for Australia's largest inland river port. |
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At dawn on December 3, 1854, thirty or more men died when British redcoats and colonial police attacked a makeshift stockade manned by rebel miners on the gold fields west of Melbourne.
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Beechworth's colourful Celtic and Chinese heritage |
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Many of the rough-hewn shelter huts scattered across the Australian Alps represent the legacy of earlier, more innocent visitors, including the now-banished mountain cattlemen. |
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Offering more than 20 places to play the great game, Melbourne's Mornington Peninsula has become the 'golf coast' of Australia. |
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Victoria's touring route for all seasons |
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Experience one of Australia's most dramatic landscapes: a cliff-hanging scenic drive around Victoria's southwestern coastline on the Great Ocean Road. |
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Pull on your leathers to explore the Mornington Peninsula, ‘Melbourne’s backyard’, suggests Philip Game |
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Victoria’s heart of gold is a land of faded glories, of dreams which won’t quite die. |
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Hundreds of rudimentary huts dotted throughout Victoria's majestic alpine areas have provided shelter and succour for generations of cattlemen and casual visitors alike. |
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Some getaways simply inspire romance. |
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Melbourne's street art sometimes has visitors wondering whether it's their eyes or Melbourne itself that is playing tricks on them. |
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Look to the sophisticated state capital of Victoria for some of the best shopping Down Under. |
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The lush dairy country inland from the Great ocean Road is milking its rich natural assets for the benefit of the hungry visitor. The official name is Corangamite Shire - Sheriden Rhodes simply says its delicious. |
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The history of the Grampians, the oldest National Park in Victoria (Australia), has just undergone drastic revision. |
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The twin towns of Daylesford and Hepburn Springs, in Victoria, are united by the outstanding healing qualities of their natural mineral springs |
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Australia is home to some of the world's best country markets. From the grand dame of craft markets, to bustling farmers markets, Sheriden Rhodes takes a look. |
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In Kyneton’s Piper Street the vision, the drive and the creativity of a handful of people has created a dining and shopping strip as alluring as any in metropolitan Melbourne. |
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