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Surf, sand and sunset skylines: Australian cities on Instagram

Perth, Darwin, Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane, Hobart, Canberra and Sydney have Instagram presences as distinct as their characters

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'Sleepwalking into the future': readers' responses to Australian cities week

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'The best in the world': a love letter to Australia's public pools

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Sydney community groups unite to fight 'greed-led' overdevelopment

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Suburbia gone sour: the melancholia of Melbourne's milk bars – in pictures

Milk bars were once an icon of Australian suburbia. In recent decades they have been decimated by the forces of gentrification. Designer Jimi Connor has documented their decline

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Stadium wars: the comedy of errors behind Sydney's shiny new plans

With four stadium policies announced in three years, the NSW government seems determined to rebuild Sydney’s two football venues – at a cost of $1.5bn. Why?

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The Gold Coast: the sun-drenched sin city that wants to shine

Famed for parties, brawls and bikini-clad meter maids, Australia’s Vegas is more dynamic than its mythology suggests

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Holden on: can Adelaide shift gears after the loss of its car industry?

Six months after Australia’s last car plant shut its doors, the Adelaide 500 race is a bittersweet affair, as poverty bites in the suburb of Elizabeth

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Too many cars, too few supermarkets: how Australia's cities really stack up

The Centre for Urban Research’s analysis shows that Australia’s major cities, while ‘liveable’, still have plenty of room for improvement

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Rock in a hard place: the decline of the all-ages music venue

With Australia’s live music scene struggling to survive, Brisbane’s promoters are using open and alcohol-free gigs to attract younger music lovers. Will it work?

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Boomburbs: Sydney's urban sprawl seen from above – in pictures

When Andrew Merry exhibited his hypnotic aerial images of Sydney’s new suburbia in 2006, many people could not believe they were taken in Australia. A decade on, he looks back on the series

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The radical plan to split Sydney into three

An ambitious proposal to reshape the Sydney region aims to capitalise on its rapid growth by breaking the pull of the harbour. But will it work?

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Housing incentives fail to ease Sydney's affordability crisis

Government incentives in Australia’s priciest market led to construction of less than 1% of total affordable homes

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Bin chickens: the grotesque glory of the urban ibis – in pictures

Tip turkey, dumpster chook, rubbish raptor – the Australian white ibis goes by many unflattering names. But it is a true urban success story, scavenging to survive in cities across Australia as wetlands have been lost. Wildlife photographer Rick Stevens captured them in Sydney

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Indigenous people are being displaced again – by gentrification

Jack Latimore

Soaring rents are destroying the communities Aboriginal people have painstakingly built in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. It all feels very familiar

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The struggle for Melbourne: has the world's 'most liveable' city lost its way?

Plonking an Apple store in Melbourne’s biggest civic square has seen a long-simmering debate about the future of Australia’s most progressive city boil over

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Australian Cities Week: what it is and how you can get involved

In collaboration with Guardian Australia, Guardian Cities is devoting a week to exploring Australian cities – and we want to hear from you

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