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Six of the best: Canberra museums

Immersive yourself in art, history and science at Canberra's best museums.

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Scallop or cake? The greatest cultural differences between states

Certain people – who are obviously wrong – call them potato cakes. That's just one of the many differences between our states.

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The rust-red domes of Kata Tjuta in the Red Centre.

We love a sunburnt country: The most inspirational places in Australia

While waiting for domestic travel to resume across our wide brown land, Brian Johnston looks to Dorothea Mackellar's "My Country" for inspiration.

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The Bay of Fires is part of the wukalina walk.

Banished, banned and broken, a unique Australian culture is making a comeback

The wukalina tour traces the east coast from Launceston to Hobart – a little on foot, but mostly by vehicle – indulging in art, architecture and Indigenous culture.

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Choose your body part ... then find out all the terrible things that can happen to it at the Museum of Human Disease.

Australia's most disturbing museum is not for everyone

If you can overcome your queasiness on a visit to the confronting Museum of Human Disease, you might actually end up feeling better about your life.

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The Quarantine Station at North Head, Manly.

Inside Sydney's dark, disease-ridden past

A new tour will shed light on the brutal but ultimately successful ways Sydney coped with past pandemics.

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Australia's remote Tiwi Islands can transform you

Who knew I was an artist? It took the people at the Tiwi Design Centre to find that talent, and I'd be no talent without theirs...

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J32JDY Human female figures, Quinkan rock art gallery near Jawalbinna, Laura, southern Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, ...

See them before it's too late: Seven Indigenous rock art treasures

They've not always given the respect they deserve (as underlined by the recent destruction of a 46,000 year old habitation site in the Pilbara), but they are well worth the long trip.