Australia is a land of contrasts - topographical, cultural, physical, meterological and visual. About 40,000 years ago, the Aborigines were the first to settle. They lived as hunters and gatherers for this entire time, living with a close link to nature, although backburning and other poor agricultural techniques have since been realised to have caused significant deforestation, salinification of the soil and elimination of much of the natural diversity of the landscape. Such a poor ability to interact with nature, despite it being so important, helps explain why much of Australia is now unsuitable for sustaining life. Interestingly, this provides one of the few examples of where the native population damaged the land more than later waves of settlers. Their way of living developed into a complex culture based on oral tradition and intricate social bounds, which was almost destroyed by the second wave of settlers, who were able to populate the land with much more success.

.+ Adelaide

.+ Agnes Water

.+ Airlie Beach

.+ Albany

.+ Albury

.+ Alice Springs

.+ Apollo Bay

.+ Armidale

.+ Arthur River

.+ Atherton Tablelands

.+ Ayers Rock(Uluru)

.+ Bairnsdale, VIC

.+ Ballarat

.+ Ballina

.+ Bargara

.+ Barham

.+ Barossa Valley

.+ Batemans Bay

.+ Bathurst

.+ Bedarra Island

.+ Beechworth

.+ Benalla, VIC

.+ Bendigo

.+ Bicheno

.+ Blue Mountains

.+ Bridgetown (AU)

.+ Brisbane

.+ Broken Hill

.+ Broome

.+ Bunbury

.+ Bundaberg

.+ Burnie

.+ Busselton

.+ Byron Bay

.+ Byron Bay Surrounds

.+ Cairns

.+ Cairns Beaches

.+ Canberra

.+ Cape Tribulation

.+ Central Coast

.+ Clare Valley

.+ Cobram, VC

.+ Coffs Harbour

.+ Coles Bay

.+ Coober Pedy

.+ Cooktown

.+ Coolangatta

.+ Cooma

.+ Coonabarabran

.+ Coonawarra

.+ Cootamundra

.+ Coral Coast/Bay

.+ Corinna

.+ Corowa, NSW

.+ Cowra

.+ Cradle Mountain

.+ Cranbourne, VIC

.+ Dandenong

.+ Dandenong Ranges

.+ Darwin

.+ Daylesford

.+ Deloraine

.+ Deniliquin

.+ Denmark (AU)

.+ Derwent Valley, TAS

.+ Devonport

.+ Dubbo

.+ Dunk Island

.+ Echuca

.+ Eden ,NSW

.+ Esperance

.+ Exmouth (AU)

.+ Far North Coast, NSW

.+ Forbes, NSW

.+ Foster, VIC

.+ Fraser Coast(Island)

.+ Fraser Island

.+ Geelong

.+ George Town, TAS

.+ Geraldton

.+ Gippsland, VIC

.+ Gladstone

.+ Gold Coast

.+ Goolwa

.+ Goondiwindi

.+ Goulburn

.+ Grafton

.+ Great Ocean Road, VIC

.+ Halls Creek

.+ Halls Gap

.+ Hamilton (AU)

.+ Hawkesbury

.+ Hawthorn

.+ Hay, NSW

.+ Hervey Bay

.+ Hobart

.+ Holbrook

.+ Horsham (AU)

.+ Hunter Valley

.+ Huon (Huonville)

.+ Ingham

.+ Innisfail

.+ Ipswich (AU)

.+ Kakadu National Park

.+ Kalbarri

.+ Kalgoorlie

.+ Kangaroo Island

.+ Karratha

.+ Katherine

.+ Kiama

.+ Kings Canyon

.+ Kingscliff

.+ Kununurra

.+ Lake Macquarie

.+ Lakes Entrance

.+ Launceston

.+ Lismore

.+ Litchfield

.+ Lizard Island

.+ Lorne

.+ Mackay

.+ Magnetic Island

.+ Mallacoota

.+ Mandurah

.+ Mansfield, VIC

.+ Margaret River Wine Region

.+ Maryborough

.+ Maryvale

.+ McLaren Vale

.+ Melbourne

.+ Mildura

.+ Mission Beach

.+ Moe, VIC

.+ Monkey Mia

.+ Moree

.+ Mornington Peninsula

.+ Morwell, VIC

.+ Mount Beauty

.+ Mount Gambier

.+ Mount Isa

.+ Mount Roland

.+ Mt Buller

.+ Mudgee

.+ Murwillumbah

.+ Naracoorte, SA

.+ Narrabri, NSW

.+ New England

.+ Newcastle

.+ Nhill, VIC

.+ North Coast (NSW)

.+ North Stradbroke Island

.+ Nowra, NSW

.+ Orange (AU)

.+ Orford

.+ Palm Cove

.+ Parkes

.+ Pemberton

.+ Penguin

.+ Penrith

.+ Perth

.+ Phillip Island

.+ Pittsworth

.+ Pokolbin

.+ Port Arthur

.+ Port Augusta

.+ Port Douglas

.+ Port Hedland

.+ Port Lincoln

.+ Port Macquarie

.+ Port Pirie

.+ Port Stephens

.+ Portland

.+ Queenscliff

.+ Queenstown (AU)

.+ Renmark, SA

.+ Riana

.+ Richmond

.+ Robe

.+ Rockhampton

.+ Roma

.+ Ross

.+ Sale

.+ Scamander

.+ Seymour

.+ Sheffield (AU)

.+ Shepparton

.+ Smithton

.+ Snowy Mountains

.+ South Burnett

.+ South Coast, NSW

.+ Southern Highlands

.+ St Helens

.+ Stanley

.+ Stanthorpe

.+ Strahan

.+ Sunshine Coast

.+ Swan Hill, VIC

.+ Swansea (AU)

.+ Sydney

.+ Tamworth

.+ Taree

.+ Tenterfield, NSW

.+ Terrigal

.+ Tom Price

.+ Toowoomba

.+ Torquay (AU)

.+ Townsville

.+ Tullah

.+ Tumut

.+ Tweed Heads, NSW

.+ Ulverstone

.+ Victor Harbour

.+ Wagga Wagga

.+ Walpole

.+ Wangaratta

.+ Warrnambool

.+ Warwick (AU)

.+ Wentworth

.+ Whitsundays

.+ Wilpena

.+ Wodonga, VIC

.+ Wollongong

.+ Yackandandah

.+ Yamba

.+ Yanchep

.+ Yarra Valley

.+ Yarrawonga

.+ Zeehan