xmas in australia where would be a good place?

There is plenty to do in Melbourne at Christmas or any other time.

Considering you have a long plane trip home soon after I'd suggest you avoid sitting on the beach for Christmas lunch. It's can be blistering heat in Melbourne at Christmas and you don't need to be sitting on the plane with severe sunburn.

You'll have to book early for most of these.

Go to the Vision Australia Carols By Candlelight at the Melbourne Myer Music Bowl on Christmas Eve night.

http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/carols/

I'd go to a restaurant with air conditioning for Christmas lunch in Melbourne.

(Preferably one with a great view.)

http://www.restaurantsinmelbourne.com.au/christmas...

Go to St Kilda beach in the late afternoon/evening and the Myer windows in Bourke St Mall.

http://stkildabeach.com/

http://www.onlymelbourne.com.au/melbourne_details....

Get tickets for the Boxing Day Test at the MCG.

http://www.mcg.org.au/History/Cricket/Boxing%20Day...

Before you go home travel up to the Historic Sovereign Hill at Ballarat.

Sovereign Hill is a recreated goldfields township set over 25 hectares on a site which forms part of the richest alluvial goldfields the world has ever seen.

We offer a wide range of activities carried out by costumed staff and volunteers, many of whom portray some of the behaviours and prejudices of the 1850s gold rush era!

http://www.sovereignhill.com.au/home-page-section/...

Affectionately called "Marvellous Melbourne" during the gold speed of the 1850s, the title is still used today for Australia's 2nd greatest city Melbourne, a city as you are able to visited with hotelbye . On the banks of the Yarra River, nearby the entrance to Port Phillip Bay, Melbourne is a modern city steeped in history. With vast wealth created from the nearby goldfields, majestic houses were built throughout the city. Several structures however stay nowadays, and Melbourne is regarded as having more examples of Victorian structure than every other city in Australia. One place you cannot miss in your trip to Melbourne could be the Southbank and Arts Centre Melbourne. Situated on the banks of the Yarra River that region is just a culturally wealthy attraction for visitors. Southbank promenade is filled up with indoor/outdoor cafés, restaurants, and live entertainment. Quickly identifiable by its spire, the Arts Centre includes a selection of theaters and places like the State Theatre, Playhouse, Fairfax Theatre, and Hamer Hall, the premier performance space for the adored Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

Tourists, particularly British tourists, traditionally spend Christmas on Bondi Beach in Sydney getting drunk. If that's not your thing some other options include spending Christmas Eve at the Carols By Candlelight in the Music Bowl in Melbourne and the Ashes cricket test match at the MCG on Boxing Day in Melbourne.

I think it's best to either spend Christmas at the beach somewhere (there is a vast array of fabulous choices) or in the mountains, such as the Blue Mountains near Sydney, the Snowy Mountains in NSW/Vic or Cradle Mountain in Tasmania, where it is cooler and more like a traditional European Christmas.

It depends on what you want. If you want big parties, fireworks, alcohol etc you're better off in Melbourne or Sydney (around Bondi) if you want somethinng a bit more low-key you're better off in Adelaide or Perth.

As another answerer said I'd avoid the north. You'd be used to British climate and northern Australia is VERY hot compared and sticky and humid, the weather would ruin it for you because you just aren't used to it.

Anywhere but up north, the tropical climate will kill you after being used to the English climate.