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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…
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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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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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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…
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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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Outback accommodation: what to expect on a camping tour in Australia
by Outback Yarns May 10, 2016If you’re flying into Alice Springs or Yulara expecting the Four Seasons and a well-stocked minibar, you may as well turn the plane around right now. The Outback is hot,…
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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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We get asked a lot what a group trip in Kakadu National Park looks like. What do you see, what do you do, how many times do you get 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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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…
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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…