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Melbourne: Glam it up a little

Tim Roxborogh gets a taste of the high life in Melbourne.

Captivated by cakes

Danielle Wright discovers European heritage in St Kilda and macaron magic in the CBD on a weekend trip to Melbourne.

Colin Mathura-Jeffree takes in Melbourne's art scene

Colin Mathura-Jeffree visits the Australian Centre for the Moving Image.

Melbourne: Sublime in the suburbs

Across the Ditch Peter Feeney relaxes in the fringes of Australia's food and culture capital and laps up the suburban lifestyle.

Australia: Top golf spots Down Under

Victoria: Follow the coast road

Danielle Wright packs the family into a camper-van and hits the road to Victoria's holiday beaches.

Jill Worrall: The 12 Apostles

You could say the 12 Apostles are the Great Ocean Road's poster boys - even though they are simply pillars of resistant rock and that at last count there were only eight of them.

Queensland soaked while Victoria burns

While firefighters yesterday continued to battle huge blazes in Victoria, floods swept through Queensland, shutting down roads, railways and airports as former cyclone Oswald inundated coastal regions.

Firefighters pray for monsoon

Australia's hopes are now focused on the monsoon finally forming over the north of the continent as more homes were lost to furious fires raging in above-40s temperatures and powerful hot winds yesterday.