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NewsA Weekender's Guide to Albury
Blockbuster-capacity galleries, sculpture trails, designer hotels — Albury's shifted gear.
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NewsThis New Brunswick Pop-Up Lets You Smash Stuff with a Baseball Bat
Blow off some steam by going to town on some satisfyingly smashable items.
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NewsThere Is a Dog Surfing Spectacular Happening in Noosa This Weekend
If you've ever dreamed of hanging ten with your four-legged friend, this is your chance.
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GuideFour Beyonce Fitness Classes to Help You Move Like Queen Bey
Dance like Bey. Party like Bey. Be like Bey.
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NewsMelbourne's Getting a High-Flying New Tourist Attraction
The perfect spot for one heck of a Classic Catch.
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NewsTen of the Most Blissful Waterfront Stays You Can Book in East Gippsland
This regional gem is filled with idyllic waterfront retreats offering the ultimate antidote to city life.
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NewsFifteen of the Most Unique Stays You Can Book Around New Zealand
Spend a few nights in a leafy treehouse, a beautifully restored truck perched right on the bay or even a mountaintop cabin with views for days.
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GuideWhere to Find the Best Fried Chicken in Melbourne
Fried chicken is basically a food group in itself — and at these ten top chook spots in Melbourne, you can have it with waffles for breakfast, in a burger for lunch, or sticky and sweet for dinner.
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NewsMelbourne's Best Underground Bars That Are Actually Underground
From Mexican-themed mezcal bars, to haunts with over 400 different spirits, these are the best bars under the city.
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GuideThe Best Bars in Melbourne for After-Work Drinks
Sip speciality wine, drink local craft beer or enjoy a Negroni (or two) at these post-work haunts.
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GuideMelbourne Restaurants and Bars with Private Dining Rooms
Made for long lazy lunches and birthday dinners to remember.
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NewsSeven Ways to Score Cheap and Discounted Theatre Tickets in Melbourne
Yes, it is possible to see a show for less than 30 bucks — you just need to get in at the right time.
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NewsTwenty of the Most Romantic Escapes for Two You Can Book in Byron Bay
Spend a few days relaxing with your significant other in these serene spots with outdoor tubs and sparkling plunge pools.
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NewsTen Extremely Australian Big Things Worth a Detour on Your Next Very Long Road Trip
Giant watermelons, potatoes and lobsters named Larry might sound ridiculous, and they are — but that doesn't stop them from being among our most loved landmarks.
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GuideWhere to Eat When You're Saving but Don't Feel Like Another Meal at Home
Places for a weeknight feed that won't blow the budget.
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NewsTen Awesome Airbnbs Still Available Over Easter
Spend the Easter holiday in an old Melbourne tram, an architect's holiday home or a shoe. Yep, a shoe.
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NewsWhere to Find The Best Brews in Hong Kong's Emerging Craft Beer Scene
Unhand the Tsingtao and grab one of these craft newcomers.
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NewsYou Can Now Buy Your Own Private Island Off the Coast of Tasmania
If you can scrape together a lazy five mill.
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RestaurantAmatrice Rooftop Restaurant
16 Stephenson Street, Cremorne
Zip away to Italy in the back streets of Cremorne, with aperitivo sips and specialty pasta 10 stories above the ground.
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RestaurantD.O.C Osteria
326 Lygon Street, Carlton
20 years on, this Lygon Street stalwart is still one of the city's top Italian restaurants.
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RestaurantReine & La Rue
380 Collins Street, Melbourne
The NOMAD team has taken French fine-dining to the next level in Melbourne.
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BarRuckers Hill
83 High Street, Northcote
This French-accented wine bar and bistro stands out among the crowd on Northcote's High Street.
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RestaurantChiki Chan & Hiki Bar
6 Centreway, Mordialloc
Chiki Chan is serving up playful Asian-fusion fare in Mordialloc — plus plenty of creative cocktails in its adjoining Hiki Bar.
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RestaurantIl Mercato Centrale Melbourne
546 Collins Street, Melbourne
Melbourne's Il Mercato Centrale is serving up pizza, pasta, calamari fritti, gelato, cannoli, cocktails, wine and so much more — to have in or take away.
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BarCircl Wine House
22 Punch Lane, Melbourne
Circl is making it so much easier to try rare wines with over 150 drops offered by the glass.
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RestaurantElio's Place
238 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Elio's Place is serving up breakfast, lunch, aperitivo snacks and late-night dinners every day of the week in the CBD.
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BarFlour Child Richmond
432 Church Street, Richmond
You’ve had sourdough pizza, US-style slices and dirty Aussie pizzas, but have you tried pinsa romana?
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NewsThe Ten Most Incredibly Designed Public Swimming Pools in the World
Dip a toe into the pool of amazing aesthetics.
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NewsVenture into Marie Antoinette's Boudoir at Brooklyn's New Hidden Bar
The ultimate place to eat cake.
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You Can Rent Your Own Private Island Off the Coast of Tasmania
In true Tassie style, it's insanely beautiful.
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GuideThe Best Things to Do on Australia Day in Melbourne
Parties of the Hottest 100, gin cocktail and free ice cream variety.
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NewsBlindfolded Yoga Is Australia's Newest Exercise Trend
The best way to feel less self-conscious about sucking at Downward Dog.
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EventGABS Craft Beer Fest
Fri, 4 Apr, 2025
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, South Wharf
Where can you get a drink from a 120-tap bar? At 2025's Great Australasian Beer Spectapular.
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EventWhat's on in Frankston: 2025 Events
Multiple single dates
Various Frankston venues
From European beach clubs to street art and sand sculpting, here's everything hitting Frankston in early 2025.
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EventBiggest Best IMAX Film Festival
Sat, 11 Jan - Sun, 2 Mar 2025
IMAX Melbourne, Carlton
This IMAX Melbourne film festival is filled with the best and biggest flicks to see on its huge 32-metre-wide by 23-metre-tall screen.
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EventEuropa! Europa Film Festival
Wed, 12 Feb - Wed, 12 Mar 2025
Select cinemas in Melbourne, Various locations
Celebrate European cinema with a packed film festival lineup featuring 44 movies from 26 countries.
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EventThe Glam Slam
Fri, 24 Jan - Sun, 26 Jan 2025
Melbourne Park, Melbourne
Beyond the official Glam Slam tennis matches, you'll also find roaming drag queens and kings, glam stations, DJ sets, and plenty of rainbow flags.
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EventDrake: 'Anita Max Win' Tour
Multiple single dates
Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne
The 'Hotline Bling' performer 'The Degrassi: The Next Generation' star is returning Down Under for the first time in eight years.
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EventThe Play That Goes Wrong
Wed, 3 Sep - Sun, 21 Sep 2025
Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne
This comedic production about a chaotic play focuses on The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society's efforts to stage a murder-mystery.
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EventPickleball Pop-Up at Ichi Ni Nana Izakaya
Thu, 9 Jan - Thu, 6 Feb 2025
Ichi Ni Nana Izakaya, Fitzroy
Drop by this Japanese restaurant to pair your sushi and cocktails with a few rounds of pickleball.
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Event$15 Cacio e Pepe at Marameo
Tue, 7 Jan - Fri, 31 Jan 2025
Marameo, Melbourne
The team is slashing the price of its most-popular pasta to celebrate its fifth birthday — but only until the end of January.
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EventAn Evening with David Sedaris
Thu, 6 Feb - Fri, 7 Feb 2025
Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne
David Sedaris is bringing his latest tour to Hamer Hall in Melbourne in February to delight NPR obsessives.
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NewsTen Meals Worth Travelling to Germany For
Pancake soup, spatzel and black forest cake make it worth the trip alone.
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NewsThis Multi-Level Sauna Raft Lets You Live Out Your Nordic Holiday Dreams
Unleash your Finnish Huckleberry Finn.
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NewsA Weekender's Guide to Newcastle
Take a trip up the Pacific to street art, pourovers, microbreweries and those famously beautiful beaches.
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GuideThe Melbourne Summer Guide 2015/16
It’s that time of year again, when the rising mercury sends us outdoors en masse, pumping our concrete playground with an energy of revelry and renewal.
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NewsAirly Is Australia's New Startup Doing Unlimited Domestic Flights
Sydney to Melbourne to Canberra as many times as you like, for one (hefty) monthly fee.
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NewsThe Nine Best Kidult Activities in Melbourne
Cast off the shackles of the working week with a nod to your childhood.
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NewsRussia: The Least Relaxing Holiday You Need to Have
Get a visa, learn some Cyrillic and get to the world's largest nation.
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NewsWe're Now One Step Closer to Crashing Kelly Slater's Secret Wave Pool
A Sydney sleuth has uncovered its location.
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NewsThe Ten Best Places to See Wildlife in Australia
Go forth and make friends with adorable animals.
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NewsEight Beach Accessories for the Ultimate Summer Day Out
Next-level beach days come with extravagant towels, everlasting phone battery and the best inflatables.
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GuideConcrete Playground’s 15 Most Popular Articles of 2015
Melburnians loved a spot of fried chicken and waterfall chasing this year.
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NewsTake a Little Staycation in Melbourne's Inner-North with Meg Mac
The ARIA-nominated artist crafts a mini-holiday for you in her (and our) hometown.
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NewsBrunswick's Boozy Mini-Golf Course Is Back
Just tap it in, give it a little tappy, a tap-tap-tapperoo.
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NewsA Weekender's Guide to Copacabana and Bouddi National Park
Take a quick drive to shipwrecks, snorkeling, fresh seafood on the beach and swamp wallabies.
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NewsTaronga Zoo Wants to Open an Overnight 'Wildlife Retreat' in the Middle of the Zoo
So you can sleep amongst baby angel animals.
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NewsA Christmas Gift Guide for the Wonderful Unicorns in Your Life
You've got the best people. Give them the best stuff.
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NewsWhy Every Foodie Needs to Visit Estonia
Where all your Eastern European food and pretty castle dreams can come true.
