Nine atlases. One guide to independent Australia.

A curated guide to the makers, producers, restaurants, galleries, shops, stays, and natural places worth knowing about.

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Worth finding this week

A few of the independent places we think you should know about.

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Barossa Distilling Co.

This award-winning distillery in the historic Barossa Valley creates uniquely Australian spirits including gin, vodka, whisky, and liqueurs using local botanicals.

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Daintree Peaks ECO Stays

A tranquil eco-conscious retreat nestled in 25 acres of pristine Daintree Rainforest, where solar-powered cabins offer views of the majestic Thornton Peak.

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Heide Museum of Modern Art

Set on the former farmstead of John and Sunday Reed, Heide is an outdoor sculpture park and gallery dedicated to modern and contemporary Australian art, with th

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Clunes Booktown

The permanent bookshop at the heart of Australia's first Booktown stocking thousands of secondhand and antiquarian titles.

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The Hebrides in the Antipodes

On a windswept Tasmanian island, Furneaux Distillery is building Australia's most distinctly maritime whisky — one peat bog at a time.

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When the Valley Held

In 1987, as the South Australian Government began paying growers to rip out their vines, Christie Schulz drove in the opposite direction. The vines she was determined to save had been planted in 1847 by a veteran of the Battle of Waterloo. They had survived drought, depression and two world wars. They were not going to survive the Chardonnay craze...not without a fight.

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