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Streets ahead: Bakery Lane
Australia knows how to shop. Its citizens want more than online sprees, seeking out eclectic high streets and innovative retailers. This is a guide to one of Brisbane's best, Bakery Lane.
Streets ahead: Gertrude Street
Australia's canny citizens want more than online shopping. The country is blessed with eclectic high streets, innovative retailers and plenty of outstanding mall-makers; bring your shopping bags.
Australian DJs: Radio National
Australia’s radio provides a crucial platform for unique stories and music, uniting a country plagued by the tyranny of distance. Monocle dials into four of the country’s most singular voices behind the microphone.
Expo 91: Stop and start
The roadhouses along Western Australia’s Great Northern Highway are vital sanctuaries for truck drivers. Monocle hits the tarmac to meet the rich characters who live life in the outback.
Observation
As Monocle marks 10 years, editor in chief Tyler Brûlé looks back at his formative years in Australia, a country he greatly admires and is keen to see realise its potential.
Carpe diem, mate
For entrepreneurs in search of a new venture, Australia offers rich opportunities beyond mining. From Gladstone's energy boom to Adelaide's green ambitions, we unearth the country's most promising sectors for investment and growth.
Defence
Saudi Arabia steps up its stocks of smart munitions and both the UK and Ukraine add to their air forces.
Oceania
Why Australia's fifth prime minister in five years may stick around and the country's Antarctic adventure.
Asia
Building a new state capital in India, South Korean entertainment and a political dynasty in the Philippines.
Home away from home
Residents of Lebanon’s Chouf region meet weekly at Beirut's Moukhtara Palace. Greeted with Turkish coffee, Arab hospitality makes them feel at home, continuing a centuries-old political and social tradition.
