Coober Pedy, a modern-day cave city, featured in "Mad
Max" as well as "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, the latter notably for
portraying the place as something other than a nuclear wasteland. See why in Home Under The Range.
Melbourne is neither Australia's largest, nor warmest city, but it
may well be the funniest. And it restates its claim to this title every year at the Melbourne Comedy Festival.
Hundreds of performers take the stage at the annual laugh-fest, a varied lot that include blind mimes, medical doctors, grandmothers and a fiery violinist who has found humor even in his arrival down under as a Vietnamese boat person.
Pictures by David Paul Morris