132 Best Places to Shop in Australia

This fun store sells luminous bowls, plates, and vases, as well as fanciful jewelry crafted from resin and Perspex in eye-popping colors. There's another location at 339 Oxford Street in Paddington.

This big, bustling bookstore is packed to its gallery-level coffee shop and is the place to go for all literary needs.

Located on a revamped shipping wharf at riverside Hamilton, this bustling interactive market gives visitors a taste of Brisbane's best street food from more than 70 funky shipping container "restaurants." Open Friday and Saturday evening 4 pm–10 pm and Sunday 4 pm–9 pm, there's also a regular lineup of live music and entertainment, and hip wares from local artists and makers. Entry costs A$5.

International and Australian designers mix and mingle here, so you can find local fashion icons like Scotch & Soda, Silk Laundry, and American Vintage here. There are eight boutiques, including its Prahran, South Yarra, Brighton, and Hawthorn stores.

Many international brands established their first Australian outlets at this major shopping mall in the city center. The mall is filled with fashion, technology, food, and art outlets, and joined via aboveground glass walkways to the Myer and David Jones department stores and the Bourke Street mall to the south, and Melbourne Central shopping center heading north. International stores include Michael Kors and Victoria's Secret, and Australian designers are well represented, including RM Williams, Scanlan Theodore, sass & bide, and Camilla. Coffee is always close to hand and there are several upmarket food courts—on the fourth floor, Tetsujin's sushi train has great city views.

Open since 1970, this market started as an outlet for local artists. Today, it has up to 200 stalls selling contemporary paintings, crafts, pottery, jewelry, and homemade gifts. It's open every Sunday from 10 am to 4 pm.

Dotted with chic boutiques fighting for space amongst top-end cafés, bars, and restaurants, many of them selling merchandise by up-and-coming Australian designers, Flinders Lane will keep fashionistas happy. Between Swanston and Elizabeth Streets, look for Cathedral Arcade, home to vintage and designer stores, in the bottom of the Nicholas Building. The lift leads to an eclectic collection of tiny shops full of unique fashion and accessories. Flinders Lane will try to divert you with walls of colorful street art.

The bellwether of Australia's craft gin movement, Four Pillars' industrial-style distillery bustles with admirers: its Navy Strength Gin is a six-time winner of best its class at the world Gin Masters. Pop in for a tasting paddle of gins and a light snack and watch the distillers at work behind a glass window, or go deeper with a tour of the distillery. Like what you taste? All its standard gins and limited-edition gins (such as the Christmas gin, available from November), as well as its preferred tonic waters, are available for purchase, along with stylish cookbooks and chic drinking paraphernalia.

The gallery shows and sells the work of established and new Aboriginal artists from the communities of Balgo Hills, Papunya, Maningrida, Turkey Creek (Warmun), the Tiwi Islands, and others in the Central Desert, Top End, and Kimberley regions. Visits are by appointment only.

Need something to read on Bondi Beach? Take a stroll to Gertrude & Alice Café Bookshop, named in honor of lovers Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Always buzzing with people, it's a great place to sip coffee or chai lattes, or have lunch while perusing the mostly secondhand books.

The charming streets of this shopping precinct on the city's northern outskirts are lined with all sorts of fun little places to explore. Peek into art galleries and pottery shops, browse through clothing boutiques and gift stores, and nosh at several eateries.

Featuring the work of some of Tasmania's finest artists, this gallery is one of the gems of Salamanca Place. Inside you'll find Hobart's best wooden jewelry boxes as well as art deco jewelry and pottery, paintings, works on paper, and sculpture. The gallery also runs a number of exhibitions each year in conjunction with its sister gallery in Evandale, Northern Tasmania. Some of the exhibiting artists here have gone on to show at national and international galleries. The works of Tasmanian Aboriginal elder Lola Greeno are a very special feature.

For discount shopping, hop off the plane and head straight to nearby Harbourtown. You'll find Nine West, Hurley, Levi's, Oakley, Cue, RM Williams, Adidas, and Bonds among the 100 outlets.

Bespoke shoemaker Hassett sells handmade leather belts, satchels, and wallets, many made from kangaroo leather. Much of Theo Hassett's leather is sourced from Greenhalgh Tannery in Ballarat, which specializes in tanning with wattle tree bark. On the premises you'll also find a café and a barbershop.

Here you'll find a beautiful collection of handmade jewelry including earrings, necklaces, and bracelets. Most pieces are one of a kind.

Located between the suburbs of Prahran and Armadale, to the east of Chapel Street, High Street has the best collection of antiques shops in Australia.

One of the big pluses of stopping in at WA’s largest boutique family-owned winery is that there are a number of labels you can taste, all fixed at different quality and price points. Beneath high ceilings and with views of vineyard rows, compare the Howard Park branded wines against the simpler MadFish and the elegant drops under their super-premium offering, Marchand & Burch. Interestingly, feng shui principles were used to design the spacious tastings room. Floor-to-ceiling windows allow in plenty of light as well as giving views over the property, and even the door has specific measurements to allow good luck to flow through. Wines produced under the Howard Park label include Riesling, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, and Cabernet Sauvignon. Tasting fees start at A$10 per person.

This new upmarket lifestyle precinct in Fortitude Valley has an ever-growing array of local fashion, housewares, jewelry, and design stores, alongside trendy cafés and bars.

For more than 30 years, the owners of this gallery have been dedicated to the fair work trade of Aboriginal artists, so rest assured, when you purchase a piece of local art here, you are giving back to a community. You'll find traditional dot painting, as well as contemporary creatives here. Insured worldwide shipping is available.

This gorgeous chocolate boutique in Leura's main shopping street has fast become the place to stop for luscious handmade chocolates and drinking chocolate. You can also take part in classes (how does making chocolate truffles sound?) and take away lovely gift boxes of sweets. For a light snack and yummy chocolate desserts, walk across the road to Cafe Madeline (187a The Mall), which is also owned by Josophan's proprietor and chocolatier Jodie Van der Velden.

This shop specializes in high-quality, expensive pearls and jewelry.

This gallery showcases quality Indigenous art over three levels in Rozelle, a suburb about 15 minutes west of the city center. Take the M50 or M52 bus from the bus station behind the Queen Victoria Building; alight at the corner of Victoria Road and Darling Street.

This is a great place to find the striking artworks of prominent artist Ken Done, who catches the sunny side of Sydney with vivid colors and bold brushstrokes. His gallery also carries a line of bed linens, sunglasses, beach towels, beach and resort wear, and T-shirts.

Historic MacArthur Central, the WWII headquarters of U.S. General Douglas MacArthur, houses boutiques and specialty shops, a food court, and a museum. Located at the bottom of the Queen Street Mall, the streets surrounding the center also feature a range of high-end fashion boutiques including Louis Vuitton, Hermès, and Tiffany & Co. The MacArthur Museum is open to the public Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday 10–2:30.

The clothing here is located somewhere close to Diesel-land in the fashion spectrum, with a variety of clothing, footwear, and accessories for the fashion-conscious. Serious shoppers should look for the Marcs Made in Italy sublabel for that extra touch of class.

The sleek Marina Mirage Gold Coast features 80-plus stores, including high-end gift and housewares, jewelry, and designer fashion boutiques like Christensen Copenhagen and Calvin Klein, along with famous Australian brands, fine waterfront restaurants, beauty salons and day spas, and marina facilities. On Saturday morning (6:30 am–noon), buy fresh gourmet produce at the Marina Mirage Gourmet Farmers' Markets.

Supporters of the Aboriginal artists of Central Australia since 1987, the Mbantua Art Gallery’s Todd Mall shop houses some of the best samples of Indigenous art in Alice Springs. Learn more about this fascinating culture at the Gallery’s Cultural Museum, where you can see boomerangs, spears, and other artifacts and objects collected around the Northern Territory.

Here you'll find a dizzying complex of predominantly high-street brands that's huge enough to enclose an 1880s redbrick shot tower (once used to make bullets) in its atrium. The Ella (Elizabeth and La Trobe Streets) corner is a tangle of hole-in-the-wall eats, coffee roasters, the excellent Blackhearts & Sparrows bottle shop, and acclaimed cocktail bar BYRDIE (try the wattleseed Negroni).

This popular café--boutique supermarket offers more than quick bites and organic, locally grown and produced grocery items (the chocolate brownies are delicious). You'll also find vegan-friendly skin care, organic cotton travel towels, eco-friendly kitchen supplies, and ready-made meals to take back to your accommodation.