History & Culture
Still life
For world-champion taxidermist Sascha Smith, success is all about sweating the small stuff.
People
Dinosaur discoveries: The dinosaur musterers
Outback Queensland’s bone-dry grazing country is giving up its 100 million-year-old secrets to a mob of dyed-in-the-wool farmers.
Nature & Wildlife
Reading the Simpson Desert
The AG Society’s ninth scientific expedition fused learned expertise and volunteer zeal to reveal knowledge long-buried in the arid environs of the northern Simpson Desert.
Destinations
T Dimboola: outback town for better, for worse
THE DRY RIVERBED THAT that borders Riverside, Denis Elliott’s “host” farm, is sandy beneath our feet. It’s littered with driftwood and mussel shells. A bilious-green waterhole supports a few die-hard European carp. A family of wood ducks parades among exposed tree roots. “Water is only two-thirds of a river,” says farmer-turned-tourist operator Denis. “The big trees,… View Article