Uluru: a rock that plagues Australia’s conscience Paul Daley © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP
Occasionally a piece of writing will capture us and turn our thoughts inwards on to how we connect to the geographic, spiritual and emotional places where we live.
It will spin our minds around and force us to confront existential questions about belonging to a continent of many nations.
You may think you know your homeland. But confronted with its vastness and apparent emptiness, you may also shudder with a realisation that you are alien in most of it and can, perhaps, never truly hope to know or understand it.
Uluru: a rock that plagues Australia s conscience | Paul Daley
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Fabulous freebies: The 10 best free activities in Australia
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As we ve discovered while being restricted to our own backyard, travel in Australia can get uncomfortably expensive. The good news is that, between shelling out for the hotels, restaurants and tours, there s plenty to enjoy in Australia that doesn t cost a cent. So greedily hoover up the best of the fabulous freebies, and save the money for something special…
Wine tasting
Australia is the best country for wine tasting in the world. While some wineries will charge for tasting sessions, most don t. Go to the Barossa Valley, Hunter Valley or Margaret River, and you re usually able to rock up at a cellar door, try a few wines, then toddle off. The wineries, of course, are working on the business model of you liking the wine so much, you buy a bottle. But for visitors, this try before you buy scheme is tremendous.