Whether you're a proud McLeod, a Fraser or just enjoy shouting “Freedom!” at inappropriate times, July 1 is your annual chance to embrace all things bonnie, brash and brilliantly Scottish. It's International Tartan Day. On this day in 1782, the notorious law making it illegal to wear Highland dress was repealed.

The carcass of what was Australia’s first inland heavy industrial centre stands as a demonstration against progress and time at Lithgow NSW.