Travel
Chasing waterfalls in the Kimberley
The Kimberley is beautiful any time of year, but from March to May – waterfall season – it is even more spectacular.
Tag: outback
Photography
Channel Country’s braided beauty
When water from rainfall, often received hundreds of kilometres away, finally reaches the Channel Country, it spreads out, filling and spilling out of the previously dry beds of ephemeral creeks and streams and bringing life to whatever it touches.
Science & Environment
Searching for Aussie dinosaurs
Our understanding of where to find ancient life in Australia has been turned on its head by a new appreciation of the country’s geology. Now the world is looking to our vast outback as the latest hotspot to locate fossils.
Fundraising
Burdened by beauty
Northern Australia’s Gouldian finch survives in huge numbers in cages around the world, but its wild population continues to struggle.
History & Culture
Possums welcomed back to Country in Red Centre
Conservationists and Traditional Owners have celebrated the return of the common brushtail possum to Central Australia, where the species is locally extinct.
News
Wild, free and feral: how brumbies are destroying Australia’s peatlands
Feral horses are running wild across Australia, and it might be reducing the amount of carbon our alpine peatlands can store.
History & Culture
The outback town that was sold for parts
Once a prosperous and thriving community, the uranium-mining town of Mary Kathleen, about 50km by road east of Mount Isa in north-western Queensland, is now a ghost town.
Travel
Let your senses run wild on an epic AAT Kings Australian adventure
From the Northern Territory’s blanket of glittering stars and red-rock monoliths to South Australia’s castaway Kangaroo Island and dazzling salt crust of Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre, our vast continent is a playground for the wild at heart.
Travel
Explore outback South Australia’s ancient realm
South Australia teems with riches in its outback realm. Join Outback Spirit on a journey of discovery through this ancient world.
Travel
Explore Glen Helen in all its golden glory
The only accommodation in the West MacDonnell Ranges (Tjoritja National Park), Discovery Parks – Glen Helen offers a base to explore and go on adventures in the spectacular region.