{"id":16571,"date":"2014-01-31T04:34:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T04:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/australian-stories-from-tourism-australia\/"},"modified":"2014-01-31T04:34:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T04:34:00","slug":"australian-stories-from-tourism-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2014\/01\/australian-stories-from-tourism-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian stories from Tourism Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/td>\n<\/td>\nChinese New Year this weekend<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sydney will kick off the Chinese New Year Festival<\/a> this weekend with a stunning twilight parade<\/a> on Sunday 2 February at 8pm. Celebrating the Year of the Horse, the Festival features free events from the 24 January \u2013 9 February, including Lunar Feasts<\/a> at Sydney\u2019s best Asian restaurants,Dragon Boat Races<\/a> at Cockle Bay Wharf and a glamorous Dragon Ball<\/a> party at The Star<\/a>. <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\"\"<\/td>\n<\/td>\nLaunceston prepares for Festivale<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
From the 7-9 of February,\u00a0Festivale<\/a> will transform Launceston\u2019s historic\u00a0City Park<\/a> into a destination for music, merriment, masterclasses and exceptional regional produce. The event has grown into an exciting gourmet fixture showcasing Tasmania\u2019s finest producers, with the 2014 program including masterclasses with leading Tasmanian winemakers and brewers. Image credit: Tourism Tasmania & Rob Burnett\u00a0 <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\"\"<\/td>\n<\/td>\nNew chocolate hot spot in Wyong<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Luka Chocolates\u2019<\/span><\/a>\u00a0T-QUAL<\/a> Grant funded project, The Chocolate Factory and Artisan Chocolate School, will open on 8 February 2014 in Wyong, NSW. The factory will have a window observatory area for guests to watch chocolate demonstrations twice a day, plus chocolate classes for adults and children and tasting sessions.
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\"\"<\/td>\n<\/td>\nFringe World Festival<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fringe World Festival<\/span><\/a>\u00a0is currently on in Perth with over 450 shows across 60 venues. A smorgasbord of entertainment, including performances in comedy, cabaret, theatre, circus and dance, the festival is on now until the 23 February \u2013 for the full program click here.\u00a0 Image credit: Jarrad Seng<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\"\"<\/td>\n<\/td>\n30 Years of Sternberg Collection<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A new exhibition opens at the\u00a0Art Gallery of NSW<\/a> this week, to celebrate 30 years since the first art collector, Goldie Sternberg, donated to the gallery. The exhibition, called\u00a0The connoisseur and the philanthropist: 30 years of the Sternberg collection<\/em><\/a><\/em> will be on from 31 January – 27 April and showcase more than 50 significant Asian works, including exquisite ceramics, stone and bronze sculptures, textiles and paintings. <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\"\"<\/td>\n<\/td>\nNew Bondi Restaurant<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Da Orazio Pizza + Porchetta opened in the new Hall Street Bondi dining precinct under the\u00a0Adina Hotel<\/a> this week. The long awaited project from\u00a0Icebergs<\/a> restaurateur features a roaring pizza oven and open plan kitchen serving up classic, laid back Italian food including plates of grilled octopus and lamb skewers with lemon, and colourful dishes of tomato, basil and mozzarella.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\"\"<\/td>\n<\/td>\nAustralian Open<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Congratulations to the winners of the 2014\u00a0Australian Open<\/a> – Li Nah from China who won the women\u2019s singles final and Stan Wawrinka from Switzerland who won the men\u2019s singles final. Li Nah headed down to Brighton Beach in Melbourne to celebrate her win, see the photos\u00a0here.<\/a> <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 Chinese New Year this weekend Sydney will kick off the Chinese New Year Festival this weekend with a stunning twilight parade on Sunday 2 February at 8pm. Celebrating the Year of the Horse, the Festival features free events from the 24 January \u2013 9 February, including Lunar Feasts at Sydney\u2019s best Asian restaurants,Dragon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}