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Bruce Munro's Field of Light: Avenue of Honour,  Albany.

Albany, Western Australia: Art installation lights up Anzacs' departure point

An installation extends 350 metres either side of the road leading up to the site of Australia's first commemorative dawn service.

  • by Penny Watson
The Giant Ram, Wagin.

Wagin, Western Australia: Travel guide and things to do

Wagin is an important and major centre in the wheatbelt.

Alexandria Bay, Sunshine Coast, Queensland.

Australia's top five secret beaches

From coast to coast and top to tip, Lee Atkinson names five great Aussie beaches that you're likely to have all to yourself.

Despite the damage caused by the long-running and erratic fire, which burnt 25,200 hectares of the park over 36 days, the natural beauty of the area remains largely intact.

High and dry, it's a shore thing

Lee Atkinson laces up her hiking shoes and takes to the trail on five of her favourite coastal walking tracks around the country.

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Greens Pool at William Bay National Park is rimmed by beach and stone.

Cornered by the karris

Curious about right angles, Sian Prior takes a trigonometric journey to forest and ocean in the state's south-west.

Maria Island beach

Unforgettable beaches: sand, sea and solitude

Travel author Lee Atkinson names five beautiful Australian beaches you'll never forget.

The Old Telegraph Station

Eucla - Places to See

<b>Eucla</b> <br> <b>Much photographed ghost remnant of an old Telegraph Station</b> <br> If there is any resonant image of the difficulty of human habitation on the Nullarbor Plain it has to be the old Telegraph Station at Eucla. Now it is no more than a few old stone walls slowly disappearing under mountainous white sand dunes on the edge of the Great Australian Bight. It is hard to think of any more lonely and isolated image in the whole of Australia.

The Indian Pacific crossing the Nullarbor far to the north of Madura

Madura - Culture and History

<b>Madura</b> <br> <b>One of the key road stops on the road across the Nullarbor</b> <br> Madura is located 1255 km from Perth and 529 km from Norseman. Another roadhouse on the seemingly endless drive across the Nullarbor Plain it offers 24 hour fuel, a motel and caravan park, a restaurant and bar, and the luxury of desalinated fresh water.

Mount Toolbrunup - the Stirling Ranges near Cranbrook

Cranbrook - Places to See

<b>Cranbrook (including Frankland and the Sterling Ranges National Park)</b> <br> <b>The Gateway to the Stirling Ranges National Park</b> <br> Located 318 km south east of Perth, Cranbrook is a tiny, rather inconsequential service centre for the surrounding sheep and cattle country. It is a typical small rural centre with a single pub, some wheat silos and grain loading facilities.