Australia Diary is a place for everyone who calls Australia home, past and present, to share the fleeting but memorable moments that reveal the heart and soul of their particular Australian city, and their Australian experience.

Inspired by Metropolitan Diary, which has been collecting telling vignettes from New York since 1976, Australia Diary is a weekly journal of Australian life edited by The New York Times Australia bureau that aims to surprise and inspire.

If you have a story, photograph, video or drawing to share – about an overheard conversation, a chance meeting, an unforgettable punch-line, or any other telling experience – send it to us: nytaustralia@nytimes.com.