By Red Centre standards, Alice Springs is a sprawling metropolis. By any other standards in the world, it’s a small town of about 28,000 people, smack bang in the middle …
James Shackell
James Shackell
I was born in 1987 and aged from there. I like the sound of pop-rocks and dislike the sound of styrofoam. The length of my forearm is approximately the same as the length of my shin. My favourite Beatle is Ringo. I believe that junk food tastes so good because it’s bad for you and that your parents did the best job they knew how to do. If Johnny Cash wrote a song about my travels it would be called ‘I’ve been to several places but still have many other destinations on my to-do list, man’. Sometimes I have trouble finishing sen
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Ask ten Aussies about the Eyre Peninsula, and we guarantee nine of them won’t know what you’re talking about. And the tenth is probably bluffing. Eyre is a little pocket …
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Jonathan Swift once wrote, ‘He was a bold man who first ate an oyster.’ And he had a point. Read and find out where to find Australia’s best oysters.
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When you’re driving along unsealed roads through one of the world’s last great wildernesses, it pays to have a safe spot to call home. For us, and a lot of …
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The Outback. Even the area’s name sounds like an admission of defeat, as if it contains so much nothingness that any attempt to put words around it is doomed to …
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The Red Centre might be the beating heart of Australia, but Kakadu National Park is where the country goes to cool off. It’s a 20,000 square kilometer stretch of billabongs, …
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A lot of places are spruiked as ‘remote’ or ‘un-mapped’, and it’s easy to get a little cynical. Yeah, yeah, we think, there’s probably a McDonalds on every corner and …
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The Olkola people come from Queensland’s southern central Cape York Peninsula and call themselves the ‘Freshwater People’. Their traditional lands encompass over one million hectares, which are part of the …
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The fruity dessert has caused a bitter rivalry between Australia and New Zealand for the past 90 years. So, who really invented the Pav?
