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Melbourne's best bookstores

An official Unesco City of Literature, Melbourne is also home to 'The Best Bookshop in the World'. In the run-up to its Writers' Festival in August, Dani Wright seeks out the city's best bookish spots.

Gold Coast: Golden opportunities

I wish they were here, too. It's fun on my own, but the Gold Coast is always a great destination with family or friends.

Room check: Sofitel Central Brisbane

As the name suggests, this five-star hotel is slap-bang in the middle of Brissy, and connected to Central Station.

Queensland: Gastro on the GC

You're on the Gold Coast, enjoying the sun, surf and nightlife.

Our big things vs their big things

In both New Zealand and Australia, we pride ourselves on our "big things" - whether it's a carrot in Ohakune or a banana in Coff's Harbour.

Queensland: A magnetic experience

Just after we rolled back the clocks and settled again into the dark evenings and, in my opinion, the depressing half of the year, I amused myself with one of those silly online quizzes.

Travel insider: Sydney

Daniel Clark, founder of travel app Townske.

Tiwi Islands: A journey into the Dreamtime

Why aren't there any boomerangs on the Tiwi Islands? Because they never came back, our guide Thaddeus deadpans.

Queensland: Go where the whales are

There are swathes of blackened trunks and spindly ghosts of trees, killed when the sap boiled from the heat of bushfires.

Gold Coast: Twice as much fun

On a hot air balloon ride over the Gold Coast you're treated to magical views, as warm ocean currents meet a lush green hinterland for 30km from Coolangatta to Southport.

Cairns: Hideout for bird lovers

A wildlife sanctuary on a plateau above Cairns teems with a colourful array of warblers, waders and raptors.

Adelaide: Roads less travelled

North of Adelaide, the Stuart Highway undulates through a bucolic landscape of cereal fields, sheep farms and vineyards.

Pelorus Island: A reef affair

The hit TV show Thunderbirds could have been set in Cairns. Any one of the surrounding mountains could double as International Rescue's hideout.

Longreach: Outback to basics

Queensland's Outback works to a very specific weather pattern and it's nothing so ho-hum as four seasons a year.

The girl who fell to Earth

It's not all up, up and away in a hot air balloon, discovers Shandelle Battersby.

Gold Coast: Across the Ditch

There's no better way to see Lamington National Park than from its canopy of flowering and fruiting trees.

Queensland: On track for tropics

Wander, linger, look out - just some of the reasons Pamela Wade feels free as a bird taking the overnight train from Brisbane.

Western Australia: Riot of colour in land of quokka

Pamela Wade meets some cute Kiwi expats on an island near Perth.