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The 2000 Olympics were a coming-of-age ceremony for SYDNEY . The impact on the city was all-embracing, with fifty years' worth of development compressed into four years under the pressure of ... Read more...
MELBOURNE is Australia's second-largest city, with a population of 3.4 million, around half a million less than Sydney. Rivalry between the two cities – in every sphere from cricket to ... Read more...
Although its lack of urban grime creates a favourable first impression, it's hard to get too excited about PERTH . Western Australia's modern capital of 1.5 million people has a reputation ... Read more...
The vibrant city of WELLINGTON is the cultural, political and commercial capital of New Zealand, though this is not what most Aucklanders would have you believe. A healthy antipathy exists between ... Read more...
AUCKLAND 's urban sprawl completely smothers the North Island's wasp waist, a narrow isthmus where the island is all but severed by river estuaries probing inland from the city's two ... Read more...
CAIRNS was pegged out over the site of a sea-slug fishing camp when gold was found to the north in 1876, though it was the Atherton Tablelands' tin and timber resources that established the town ... Read more...
Cutting dramatically through lush coastal plains, the Brisbane River coils like a snake around the cosmopolitan chic of Queensland's unique sub-tropical capital. Developed as a penal colony in ... Read more...
ADELAIDE is always thought of as a gracious city and an easy place to live in, and despite a population of around one million and a veneer of sophistication, it still has the feel of an overgrown ... Read more...
Capital of the Canterbury region and the largest city on the South Island, CHRISTCHURCH (population just over 300,000) exudes a palpable air of gentility and a connectedness with the mother country. ... Read more...