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It’s a rarity these days: a sleepy island that really lives up to the name. In a lot of ways, the 21st century left Kangaroo Island behind. Cut off from…

ATA trip leader Damian Thornton has been leading trips through Western Australia and the Top End for the past 4 years. On a recent overland road trip from Broome to…

Everybody has preconceived ideas about Australia, just like they do about everywhere. We’ve got some of the best beaches in the world (true). We all like vegemite, Rupert Murdoch and…

It’s pretty hard to find one spot on Australia’s north-west coast and say, definitively, ‘Yep, that’s as good as it gets.’ But having recently travelled by road from Cairns down…

Australia. The great land of opportunity. But in 2016 a lot of young Aussies don’t seem to think so. Most of us view Australia as small fry; a splodge on the…

Trina and I sat on my mum’s couch in Manchester, listening to a family friend try his best to talk us out of travelling across the Nullarbor. “There’s absolutely nothing…

Like many Australians, I’ve given my passport an absolute thrashing. As soon as I hit my late teens I began to feel trapped in Australia. Fenced in. Limited. I needed…

Australians are masters of environmental adaptation. When placed in surrounds harsh, hostile and generally inimical to human habitation, they adjust. Not always in creative, clever or particularly successful ways, it…

“What’s wrong?” Trina said, through the mouthpiece of her snorkel. My tongue churned and felt like it was expanding. Liquid salt poured into my face. I couldn’t get the words out.…