Using its own tactics, the union held its ship in Vancouver harbour for days with a log boom, and then blocked a road to bar the greens' access to a further logging site.

ECONOMIST: A surprise in the woods

In fact, several of the more sophisticated spots are in hotels, including the glass-walled Blu Horizon in the Shangri-La overlooking Sydney Harbour, Hemmesphere in the Establishment Hotel and the cavernous lobby-level Water Bar in BLUE Sydney.

FORBES: Travel

Island Bar, a trendy drinking oasis reached by ferry on the small, historic Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour, is back for its second season, and starting 1 December, will be open every day through 31 January.

BBC: Sydney's Island Bar in full swing