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Elspeth Callender is a columnist.

Indigenous tours in Tasmania: New walking tour offers First Nations perspective on Hobart

Indigenous tours in Tasmania: New walking tour offers First Nations perspective on Hobart

This 90-minute experience highlights and honours the place, presence and stories of First Nations people in a city that has historically excluded them.

  • by Elspeth Callender
Pinetrees Lodge at Lord Howe: More than 130 years on, Australian island hotel still shines

Pinetrees Lodge at Lord Howe: More than 130 years on, Australian island hotel still shines

The Pinetrees story begins with Margaret Curry, an Irish-born housemaid, and Thomas Andrews, a fetching seaman she met on her passage to Australia in 1832.

  • by Elspeth Callender
Nine must-do highlights of Lord Howe Island

Nine must-do highlights of Lord Howe Island

Stunning Lord Howe Island is home to the world’s most southerly coral reef.

  • by Elspeth Callender
Lord Howe Island travel guide and things to do: Nine highlights

Lord Howe Island travel guide and things to do: Nine highlights

Stunning Lord Howe Island is home to the world's most southerly coral reef.

  • by Elspeth Callender
Dip Falls and Big Tree, Dip River Forest Reserve: Tasmania's unusual hexagonal-like natural wonder

Dip Falls and Big Tree, Dip River Forest Reserve: Tasmania's unusual hexagonal-like natural wonder

The other side of Tasmania proves to be a whole different world.

  • by Elspeth Callender
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Bright, Victoria, Australia: The High Country cafe that changes lives

Bright, Victoria, Australia: The High Country cafe that changes lives

It serves regional, seasonal and Indigenous bush foods, and gets young Indigenous people from the Northern Territory workplace ready.

  • by Elspeth Callender
Six of the best: Elevated experiences in Sri Lanka

Six of the best: Elevated experiences in Sri Lanka

Travel by floatplane while in Sri Lanka, especially if you're short on time.

  • by Elspeth Callender
Queenstown, Tasmania: Why you should visit and five things to do

Queenstown, Tasmania: Why you should visit and five things to do

I'm ashamed to admit I lived in Tasmania for more than a decade before discovering Queenstown.

  • by Elspeth Callender
Canada: Six of the best floatplane flights in British Columbia

Canada: Six of the best floatplane flights in British Columbia

These flights inevitably involve outrageously beautiful scenery.

  • by Elspeth Callender
The raw beauty of roughing it

The raw beauty of roughing it

It might be just a camping cushion but it could mark the beginning of the end of this traveller's life in the rough.

  • by Elspeth Callender