Echuca Wharf was an important site on the busy Murray River in the late 1800s. It attests to the critical role that the river trade played in the pastoral boom and in the rapid economic growth and development of the colonies during this time, which ultimately led to Federation. Today the huge multi-level timber wharf is still operational with three tourist cruising paddle-steamers leaving from the wharf daily.
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Oast Houses, New Norfolk, Tas

The Oast House at Tynwald Park in New Norfolk, is the only Oast House in the Derwent Valley that is open for public inspection. It served as a working oast house from 1867 to 1969. It has now been converted into a museum, gift shop, craft market and tea room. It is located on a hill overlooking what were once the extensive hops fields. The museum in the Oast House has interesting displays which explain how the hops were processed and the hop farming methods which were used throughout the Derwent Valley.
Location: Tynwald Park, New Norfolk, Tas
See also: Oast Houses of Tasmania

CSIRO Radio Telescope, Parkes, NSW

An icon of Australian science, the Parkes Observatory, is a 64-metre Telescope used for Radio Astronomy. It is operated by the Australia Telescope National Facility, a division of CSIRO. It was one of several radio antennas used to receive images of the Apollo 11 moon landing in July 1969. The visitors centre primarily caters for public curiosity about the radio telescope and astronomy, through contact with over 100,000 visitors per year. Star of the movie The Dish, the telescope is still a world class instrument used by Astronomers from around the world to explore the Universe, though it became operational in 1961. Website
Location: 20 kilometres north of Parkes, NSW, 380 kilometres West of Sydney.

The Sidney Myer Music Bowl is a canopy of aluminium-faced plywood supported by steel cables and tapered steel masts, stretched over a stage and orchestra pit with some fixed timber seating, and a sloping lawn area. Structural expression and material experiment were popular amongst Melbourne's more avant-garde architects in the 1950s, but this interest was expressed mainly through residential buildings. The Bowl is a notable experiment in the use of a steel tensile structure, and in the architectural expression of structure through form, and both buildings drew national acclaim.
The Sidney Myer Music Bowl was the first major purpose-built outdoor cultural venue to be constructed in Melbourne and was designed to accommodate a completely new scale of live outdoor performance events. Since opening in 1959, the Bowl has been the scene of a wide range of memorable events and performances for large numbers of Melbournians. It seats more than 2,000 with room for a further 11,000 on its landscaped lawn.
Location: Kings Domain, Melbourne, Vic

Incinerator, Ipswich, Qld

The Ipswich Incinerator is one of a number of Walter Burley Griffin designed incinerator buildings erected around Australia by the local municipalities for burning the city's garbage. The American born architect Griffin designed Canberra, the National Capital. The only example of Griffin's work in Queensland, it comprises two interlocking gable-roofed brick structures set into a hillside in a fashion not dissimilar to the municipal incinerator in the Sydney suburb of Willoughby designed by the same architect. The building was initially designed with one chimney, but adding a second work unit and chimney in 1940 extended its capacity.
The incinerator was designed to process the rubbish generated by a city of 20,000 people, but by 1960 the population of Ipswich was twice this number. Moreover, by this time it was no longer thought environmentally appropriate to dispose of rubbish by burning. Use of the incinerator was therefore discontinued and as the empty building began to be targeted by vandals, in 1965 the council considered demolishing it. Since 1969, it has been home to the Ipswich Little Theatre.
Location: Queens Park, Ipswich, Qld