As the good chefs and producers of Noosa and the Sunshine Coast can amply prove, Queensland is far more…

1. Queensland: Eclipse and reef stage a spectacle

Drive inland from Brisbane, Rockhampton or Townsville and you will cross the Great Dividing Range and discover a vast sun-baked…

1. Australia: Top golf spots Down Under

"You caught what?" The answer was: public transport on the Gold Coast. My children spend more time than they should belted…

At 8am, mid-October, as I was lying on a Gold Coast beach, my sister texted from Auckland to say she was too cold to think…

Female seahorses have got this pregnancy caper worked out. They place their eggs, sometimes hundreds…

1. Sydney: Let's bring the kids

Even after all these years they're beasts. Three storeys high, four $8 million Rolls Royce engines each weighing more than…

1. Economic gap between Aussie states gets wider

Gripping an electrically driven cable for dear life as I skidded across a man-made lake, I alternated between thrills and…

1. Sunshine Coast: Jet-ski rush

Make sure your kids are calm when you arrive to Australia's largest railway museum.

1. Australia: Follow the coast road

Jeff Turnbull tackles Australia's adventure capital - Tropical North Queensland.

1. Queensland: Take the plunge and go for it

It was the first trip I'd made to Tropical North Queensland, and I realised exactly what a different…

1. Queensland: Tropical coast ticks all the boxes

Elisabeth Easther travels back in time to a sleepy town at the end of the Waikato River.

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