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Australia holidays

July 2024

  • Victoria’s Surf Coast

    Local's guide to Australia
    A local’s guide to Victoria’s Surf Coast: ‘Everyone has some relationship with the ocean’

    The wild stretch from Torquay to Lorne blends long coastal walks and ocean plunges with quality food and culture that rivals nearby Melbourne, says author Gill Hutchison

June 2024

  • Illustration for a locals guide series. The image shows a vintage postcard that reads 'Freemantle' with Fremantle lighthouse at sunset in the background.

    Local's guide to Australia
    A local’s guide to Fremantle: ‘It feels like everyone is living the good life’

    At Perth’s historic port city, locals enjoy dog-friendly beaches by day and live music and high-end cuisine by night, says musician Abbe May

May 2024

  • A retro looking postcard with the Coffs Harbour wharf in bold

    Local's guide to Australia
    A local’s guide to Coffs Harbour: ‘The culture here is being outside’

    There’s the muttonbirds and the supersized banana, but this NSW coastal destination is known for its friendly outdoor lifestyle – and a growing food and culture scene, says artist Sarah Lyttle

April 2024

  • Runners in colourful clothing in bushland

    Heartbreak Hill to the Great Ocean Road: six of Australia’s best marathons and fun runs

    Weekend Runner Australia author Emma Kemp runs you through some of the country’s best long-distance races, taking in city pavements, tropical islands, red dirt and windswept coastlines

March 2024

  • Narrm king Freddie Merkin at FabAlice against the rolling back drop of the Macdonnell Ranges. A 4 day rainbow festival - celebrating love, diversity & glitter - in the heart of Australia Alice Springs. NT Australia

    Three decades after Priscilla, drag blooms in Alice Springs

    Drag and cabaret performers from near and far travel to Australia’s red centre to celebrate a special anniversary of The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

February 2024

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    ‘I don’t want you to watch me die’: the last words my father said before sending me away

    At the age of 20, Ruaridh Nicoll was sent half a world away by his dying father. Now, with a son himself, he returns to that remote corner of Queensland to imagine his lost, younger self – and wonder at the remarkable decision his dad made

January 2024

  • A porter carries suitcases into a hotel.

    A porter’s guide to suitcases: ‘Expensive, brand-name luggage? One question – why?’

    After 20 years working as a resort and hotel porter in Australia, the UK and Canada, Raymond Thew has seen all kinds of bags
  • Fish wraps with oyster sauce and panko batter on a plate in front of a campfire

    Cook like you're on holiday
    Keep it simple and focus on the fire: how to cook and eat on a camping holiday

    Campfire cook Harry Fisher shares his rulebook for successful sleep-out eating – and a recipe for battered fish wraps that leaves the flour and egg at home
  • A Melbourne-bound XPT train prepares to depart Central Station in Sydney.

    Sleeper services may return on Sydney-Melbourne route after new trains arrive, as night patronage booms

    Exclusive: NSW government says it is open to all options even though new rolling stock, now due in 2026, will have reclining seats only

December 2023

  • Father and children sitting inside tent

    Twelve parents’ tips on camping with kids: ‘Don’t look too closely at anyone’s feet’

  • A large amount of travel luggage

    Australian travel insurance red flags: missed connections, stolen luggage and preexisting conditions

  • an EV on the road

    Change by degrees
    ‘Even the smallest town has electricity’: how to plan an outback Australian road trip in an EV

  • Budj Bim. From Undiscovered Victoria published by Hardie Grant Explore and out November 2023

    Rugged lakes, panoramic peaks and sparkling bays: five underrated Victorian walks

November 2023

  • Composite of a phone being used for a walking tour.

    A two-hour walking tour with ChatGPT: ‘I’d not suggest that to my worst enemy’

    The AI app has been praised and panned for its itinerary planning abilities. In Sydney, the city she knows best, travel writer Kate Hennessy puts it to the test

September 2023

  • Zara and Tully Burke ride dirt bikes on the Birdsville common

    Common wealth: how Birdsville adapted an age-old English custom for the outback

    Home to goat herds, dirt bike races and thousands of tourists, this tiny town’s big shared space reimagines an ancient concept

August 2023

  • Oosterschelde, a traditional three-masted Dutch schooner

    In Darwin’s footsteps: sailing ship to retrace round-the-world voyage of the Beagle

    On Monday, a three-masted schooner will set sail from Plymouth, taking outstanding young naturalists on a two-year educational trip. Crew members still needed …

July 2023

  • Mostafa Rachwani visits Gordons Bay in Sydney, Australia, 11 July, 2023. (Guardian/Anderson Castle)

    Fomo from not being on a European summer holiday? Try a Sydney ‘Eurotrip’

  • Travellers including a family and business people napping in an airport

    Is it possible to cure jet lag? ‘Sleep in the week before travel is our most important’

June 2023

  • Tourist Diane Adams photographs the inside of the Stick Shed in Murtoa, Victoria, Australia

    The rural network, Victoria
    ‘Cathedral of the Wimmera’: the wartime grain storage putting a small Victorian town on the map

    The Stick Shed, a water tower taxidermy museum, and the silo art trail are drawing 20,000 tourists a year to Murtoa

May 2023

  • Sonia Hyland, 50, walks on a treadmill in a friend’s dugout in White Cliffs

    The Guardian picture essay
    White Cliffs NSW: where life is lived underground and the desert ‘does all sorts of strange things’

    ‘God’s treasures, buried for millions of years’ are still being found by those willing to move a lot of rock and dirt
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