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The islands of Sydney Harbour

The islands of Sydney Harbour

Where there used to be 14 islands dotting the busy waterway, only eight have avoided the growth of Australia’s biggest metropolis.
Read more… 30 October 2012

Australia rediscovers its urban indigenous heart

Kings Park in Perth, Australia

From Sydney to Melbourne to Perth, urban tours are challenging the perception that the country’s Aboriginal history can only be experienced in the desert.
Read more… 07 June 2012

The glittering goldfields of southeastern Australia

Gold panning at Sovereign Hill, in Ballarat

The optimism and hardship that dominated the lives of pioneering fortune hunters in the 1850s reverberate throughout present-day Victoria.
Read more… 26 January 2012

A walk through Sydney’s criminal shadows

Sydney’s lanes

As the site of some of Australia’s most notorious criminal gangland activity, Sydney’s past teems with tales of bawdy bordellos, sordid soirees and rapacious razor gangs.
Read more… 30 August 2011

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