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Kakadu National Park: Ancient history brought to life

New indigenous tourism ventures are emerging in Kakadu, and traditional owners have welcomed tourists into parts of the park previously kept hidden from the public, writes Tara Ravens.

Darwin: Top guns, red suns and other star attractions

Birdsville: Getting fried in the middle of nowhere

The Birdsville Races are one of those quintessential, quirky, outback events involving horses in which the actual races are kind of incidental to the rest of the fun.

Brisbane: Electric arts

South Australia: Vast works of art in sweeping landscape

Victoria: Scent of a bygone era

Lavandula, a Swiss Italian farm northwest of Melbourne, is steeped in history - a divinely-scented pocket of land at Shepherd's Flat, that could be straight out of a <i>Glorious Gardens of Europe</i> coffee-table book.

Modern transport in ancient Australian Outback

Northern Territory: Bush tucker by the billabong

Karen Michelmore goes in search of a traditional feast in the Northern Territory's world heritage-listed Kakadu National Park.