Nine must-do highlights of the Sunshine Coast

Craig Tansley

Trendy cafes and hotels, along with some of the country's most spectacular coastal scenery, await visitors to the Sunshine Coast.

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The Sunshine Coast is home to some of Australia's most beautiful coastline.

Australia's last great adventure destination

Catherine Marshall

Up on Cape York, it's hard to know where this country ends and the one next one begins.

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The best (and worst) natural springs to take a soak

Keith Austin

The Great Artesian Drive is a peregrination around northern NSW that takes in many spots where natural springs splurge to the surface.

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The naturally heated thermal pool at the Artesian Bore Baths.

Boarding rear-to-front of planes is the standard method, but it's also one of the least efficient ways.

COVID-19 could change one of the worst things about flying

Why is it so difficult for airlines to devise a quick, simple boarding process?

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Airline takes extreme measures to avoid quarantine requirement for flight crew

Cathay Pacific Airways is taking extreme measures to cope with new rules that will require flight crew to quarantine in Hong Kong.

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Will Davies and Kyunghee Park

How Newcastle is becoming one of our greatest cities

Newcastle is a small city making a big impact.

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Sheriden Rhodes

The first Australian shipment of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines is unloaded from a Singapore Airlines plane at Sydney ...

Secret cargo: Airlines use passenger planes to transport COVID-19 vaccine

Passengers aboard Singapore Airlines flight SQ231 to Sydney last weekend had no idea of the precious and secret cargo being carried with them.

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Sue Williams

One reader was left without access to money in Dubai due to a hotel's pre-authorisation charges on her credit card.

Letters: Hotel holding charges left me broke in a foreign country

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The inside of the campers' distinctive aluminium coachwork - first manufactured in the 1920s - includes private ensuite, ...

Winery's well-stocked Airstream campers offer hotel comforts in a caravan

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Alice Springs

Located in the heart of Australia's Red Centre and surrounded the magnificent MacDonnell Ranges, it's a great spot to experience the beauty and magic of the outback.

A huge bone-in rib-eye "txuleta" that's seared until barely rare on a wood-fired grill.

The perfect meal doesn't exist, but this is as close as it gets

Anthony Bourdain, the late chef, TV host and traveller, was always on the hunt for the perfect meal, even though he knew it didn't exist.

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Ben Groundwater

I spent $1500 on lunch, and it was the weirdest meal of my life

A white-knuckle ride through taste and scent and texture, this meal was the best, the worst, the weirdest, the most magical and the most mind-blowing culinary experience of my life.