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For a long time scientists believed Indigenous Australians to be the most ancient continuous civilisations on the planet, and now they have the DNA to prove it. A team of researchers…
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I won’t lie: extensive travel has made me somewhat immune to the effects of seeing a remarkable location for the first time. I pinch myself less. My breath’s hardly ever…
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It’s okay if you don’t know how to pronounce it; we didn’t either until we paid a visit to Adelaide’s playground, the famous Fleurieu Peninsula (think floo-ree-oh). Easily daytrip-able from…
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When Lee (USA) booked his 22-day Darwin to Perth trip with Adventure Tours, he had no idea that on this trip, he would abseil right into the arms of his…
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As night falls over Kangaroo Island, hundreds of local residents hop out from beneath the trees to graze on the grassy hills. They’re a special subspecies of Western Grey Kangaroo, native to…
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Greece is blessed with a bounty of natural wonders: the craggy hills of Meteora, the black sands of Santorini…the Twelve Apostles. Wait, what? Rewind that last bit. Turns out Greece’s latest tourism video…
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We’re cruising along the clifftop highway, the minibus taking turns ponderously, grinding up the gears as we climb through a stand of eucalypt trees. All of sudden the ground to…
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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…
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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…
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If you’ve always thought of Western Australia as a big hole in the ground where we dig for the precious metals and opals and magic pixie dust that somehow drives the…
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Nice job, Australian Antarctic Division. Not only do you protect our fair shores from an invasion of tiny penguins and harvest the precious ice with which we cool our drinks,…
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It’s a pretty good bet that if you’re talking to someone who’s dissing Adelaide, they’ve probably never actually been to Adelaide. “Nah mate, wouldn’t go there. Just a lot of…
