The hottest ticket in town was a sold-out seven-course degustation dinner but there were plenty of food stalls featuring local produce at the Taste of Tasmania foreshore party for those who missed out.
Perth saves its big fireworks display for Australia Day but crowds still gathered on the foreshore and in Kings Park to watch fireworks over the Swan river.
The threat of rain did not deter NSW revellers from packing the Harbour foreshore, some waving Australian flags or wearing green and yellow face paint.
In 2004 a Labour government overruled a court which had given the Maori title to the foreshore and seabed.
The media stoked fears that the ruling would put an end to seaside holidays, prompting the rattled government to pass a hastily conceived law to keep the foreshore and seabed in public hands.In this section A glass half full Nose to nose Taking the Mickey For us, or against us?
On a hill, a former glassworks with a high redbrick chimney is now home to foreshore families who have moved in to squat.
One Maori MP was so outraged at Labour's abolition of Maori claims to the foreshore that she quit the party, and set up the rival Maori Party.
ConocoPhillips, an American company, already operates a separate LNG plant on the harbour foreshore for gas from the Bayu-Undan field, near Timor-Leste.
The rich would not be seen dead on the foreshore promenades where anglers cast for mullet on the weekends when the council does not release sewage into the sea, or on the beaches where whizzing cricket balls, rubbish and tens of thousands of paddlers vie for space.Mumbai's sports clubs, with British colonial roots, used to be the ticket.
Common ownership of the foreshore and sewage, leading to overfishing and poisoning, put paid to that.
Railway access in the mid-19th century stimulated the extension of docks beyond the foreshore and toward the channel.
