The history of Sarah Island is brutal. Its residents had another description. Hell on Earth.

So much has changed in the last four years, but that would have been the case regardless of where I’d spent them. However, there are lessons I don’t think I would have learnt if not for travel.

Photographer Aaron Jones is on an epic mission.

The open plains, wetlands and wildlife of Rinyirru National Park is scenic respite in Far North Queensland.

Charles Blackman is one of Australia’s most prominent artists. His works are imaginative and whimsical – a trait that has been embraced in his namesake hotel, The Blackman, in Melbourne.

Autumn in Tasmania is all kinds of beautiful, and the setting for a spectacle you won’t find anywhere else.

I wasn’t lost. Not in the way I could be in mountains and trails like these. But I had no idea where I was or where I was going.

It’s about 2.30pm on a Monday afternoon and Hosier Lane, a graffitied alley off Melbourne’s Flinders Street, is alive.