Australia’s only naturally burning coal seam Burning Mountain is a rare phenomenon – a coal seam, buried 30 metres underground, which has been burning for at least 5,500 years, some say over 15,000 years. The experience is a pleasantly energetic walk of 4 km (return) through bush land which becomes increasingly bare and barren the…
A message from Tourism Australia Bushfires are currently affecting some parts of Australia. Like all Australians, our hearts go out to the families and communities who are impacted by the bushfires. Our gratitude for the frontline services facing the fires head on cannot be expressed deeply enough. STAYING UP TO DATE We encourage all travellers visiting…
Prestigious and controversial, the Archibald Prize, Australia’s foremost portraiture prize returns to Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre for the first time in many years. Now in its 98th year, the Archibald Prize awards $100,000 prize money for the winning artist as judged by the trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The Archibald Prize…
Koala Ark will protect a population of up to 1,500 individuals Aussie Ark have secured 5,750 hectares of wilderness including preferred Koala habitat, in the Barrington Tops of New South Wales. Australia’s largest WILD koala sanctuary Australia is in crisis. It has the WORST mammal extinction rate of any country in the world. Home to more than…