Australian Traveller

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Editor’s letter

AUSTRALIAN TRAVELLER

ONLINE • From an AUTUMNAL road trip to a new multi-day HIKE of Uluru, your next INSPIRING ADVENTURE awaits at australiantraveller.com

SENSE OF PLACE

WISH YOU WERE HERE • THE TARKINE/TAKAYNA, TASMANIA/LUTRUWITA

TRAVEL BUZZ • From new URBAN walking tours to pub REVIVALS and an EXHIBITION to mark 50 years since Cyclone Tracy.

PILLOW TALK • Check in to CHECK out the latest, GREATEST and most fabulous STAYS around Australia this AUTUMN.

WINE & DINE • Celebrating the NEW and noteworthy, from ARTY gallery EATERIES to top SPOTS in Canberra and CRONULLA.

DATE NIGHT • These PETITE restaurants offer an INTIMATE and elevated DINING experience to REMEMBER.

Gearing up • Looking the part out on ADVENTURE – from outback hiking to urban ROAMING – is in our fashion DNA, blending PRACTICALITY with a distinctly Aussie AESTHETIC.

Nature’s canvas • Alexis Buxton-Collins gets UP close and PERSONAL with some unusual MODELS on an artist’s walk near Hahndorf.

Twists and turns • From ‘Season Swapping’ to ‘DETOUR Destinations’, there are many good reasons to STEER towards new PLACES, writes Carla Grossetti.

A fine CATCH • Byron Bay’s HOTTEST hotel is home to a new seafood restaurant worth DRESSING up for, finds Lara Picone.

MARINE MAGIC

JUST ADD WATER • Peli’s has landed in NOOSA and evokes the LAID-BACK LIFESTYLE of the SUNSHINE Coast, says Carla Grossetti.

HAPPY PLACE • Trailblazing COOINDA Lodge has upped the ante on LUXURY lodgings within KAKADU National Park. Imogen Eveson checks in.

Dine in the vines • Western Australia’s FOOD and wine MECCA, Margaret River, has a new kid in TOWN and there’s a lot to SAVOUR, writes Katrina Lodge.

Higher calling • Airport HOTELS are going GLAM and becoming design-focused DESTINATIONS in their own RIGHT, as Ricky French discovers.

Waterloo, Sydney • Sydney/Warrane’s Waterloo METRO station is woven around a WORLD of street ART, urban TREASURES and railway HISTORY in the atmospheric INNER-SOUTH suburbs of the CITY, as Joanne Karcz finds.

PINDAN to plate • From native food FORAGING with Traditional Custodians in the remote reaches of the Kimberley to FINE DINING at The Ritz-Carlton, Perth’s HEARTH restaurant, Bonita Grima embarks on a cultural culinary journey that will whet your appetite for WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

SUMMER BAY • An unlikely tourist MECCA on South Australia’s RUGGED Eyre Peninsula offers a unique IMMERSION in an unrivalled AQUATIC environment.

ACCESS ALL AREAS • An EXCLUSIVE tour of Parliament House CAPTURES the PULSE of this CULTURAL icon, writes Rachel Lees.

Striking a chord • From a big COUNTRY music bash in a RODEO arena to a FOLK festival by the SEA, regional music FESTIVALS are hitting all the right NOTES with crowds all over Australia.

THE UNEXPECTED GUIDE TO THE OUTBACK • Be it a magical MUSIC festival in the BUSH, a stay in an ecology-focused hotel, an air SAFARI over vast plains, or a WILDLIFE cruise along a river that mirrors the surrounding landscape, there are a few SURPRISE finds that are guaranteed to become FAVOURITES around Australia’s ICONIC outback.

POETRY IN MOTION • IMMERSE yourself in the ARTS to get a sense of PLACE in the Australian OUTBACK, just as Kassia Byrnes does.

EXPERIENCES • From COLOURFUL festivals to a new sunrise light SHOW at Ulur−u, add these experiences to your OUTBACK bucket list.

JOURNEYS • From bucket-list air SAFARIS to...