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Australia.com Black Tie Gala Announces Harrison Ford and John Travolta to Present to Honorees Kylie Minogue and Phillip Noyce

LOS ANGELES — Minogue, an international singing sensation known for her hits “LocoMotion” and “Can’t Get You Out of My Head,” is a huge “Grease” fan. Noyce directed Ford in “Patriot Games,” as well as helming accomplished films including “The Bone Collector” and “Rabbit Proof Fence.”

The event will include performances by Olivia Newton-John and the Qantas Choir and Australian food by celebrity chefs Neil Perry and Wolfgang Puck.

WHEN: Saturday, January 19, 2008 Red
WHY: Australia Week’s signature event, the Australia.com Black Tie Gala, is a red carpet event that honors high profile individuals for significant contributions in their respective industries and for excellence in promoting Australia in the United States. This year’s gala will recognize Kylie Minogue and Phillip Noyce for their contributions to the entertainment industry.
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Past honorees include Russell Crowe, Naomi Watts, Nicole Kidman, Keith Urban, Cate Blanchett, Hugh Jackson, Mel Gibson, INXS, Anthony LaPagila, and Olivia Newton-John. In 2007, special tribute was paid to Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin.

About G’Day USA: Australia Week 2008

G’Day USA: Australia Week 2008 will showcase the best of Australian food, wine, art, film, lifestyle, tourism and business from January 17-26, 2008. The event started in Los Angeles in 2004 and has expanded to include both national and New York events. The promotion has grown into one of the single largest foreign country promotions held annually in the United States. Australia Week begins in Los Angeles with the Australia.com Black Tie Gala, a film premiere, the annual CEO Golf Day with Ian Baker Finch, and an Energy and Climate Change Symposium. New to Los Angeles are an Aussie Youth Festival at local college campus and fun US vs UK Hollywood Ashes cricket match.

2008 events in New York include a Queensland Government Walk on the Wildside dinner with Terri and Bindi Irwin to benefit Wildlife Warriors, and two tourism events – the Great Aussie Auction and Australia Walkabout Planet Oz presented by Conde Nast. The 2007 inaugural New York events established a platform for the philanthropic, fashion and financial sectors and in 2008 the momentum continues with the Australia Plays Broadway show, the Merino 200 Jacob’s Creek Australia Day Black Tie Gala, the Innovation Day, Financial Services Day, Wine Festival and Fashion Showroom. G’Day USA: Australia Week is produced by the LA & NYC offices of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Tourism Australia, Qantas Airways and Austrade. For more information, visit www.australia-week.com

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My family (we’re Australian) will be in Victoria, BC for a wedding early next August. There are 5 of us, my father (61), my brother (33), my husband (42), myself (36) and our daughter who will be 11 months old. We’ll have two hire cars between us and want to spend 4-5 days together as a family in the week following the wedding, but not sure what would best suit our travel requirements and diverse interests. My father and brother are both keen fishermen, while my husband and I would prefer a wider range of activities, and obviously our daughter won’t cope with too much long-distance driving. Only my father has ever spent any time in the USA previously, and we all appreciate spectacular scenery and interesting culture, food & wine etc.
Should we head up into the Canadian Rockies for a few days, or is that too far to drive? Alternatively, does anyone have any suggesions for spending time in Washington State and/or Oregon?
Thanks in anticipation!

I can’t say much for outside Washington or Seattle , really, but they’re some interesting things in Seattle.

There’s a lot of Sea Food here.

Pike Place Market the oldest farmers market.

The Space Needle
You can ride to the top of it and eat at the Sky Cafe, the revolving restaurant. The food isn’t that great but I heard it’s getting better.

Not to far from the Space Needle is the EMP: Experience Music Project

Also near that is the Seattle Center: It has Sculpture park and you might even be able to see a play at the center theater.
There’s rides at the Seattle Center, some for little kids and some for adults, games to play.

There’s the Seattle Aquarium right next to the water and not too far from it there it the Ye Old Curiosity Shop.
The stuff there is pretty expensive but it’s cool to look in there, they have a real mummy from out in the desert.

Whale Watching ( But that’s really pricey)

You could go to the Art Museum
There’s one of the Hammering Man sculptures in front of it. It’s 48 feet tall.

The Glass Museum in Tacoma about an hour and a half away. You’ll have to look up the schedules but they have times where they go though the actual process of making glass sculptures.

You could catch the water taxi( ferry ride) across the water and check out alki beach. ( and more sea food.)

I don’t know anything about fishing but they’re some good lakes around here.

….I think I just gave you bunch of stuff to Google….

Well, Hope this helped some and that you enjoy your trip.