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I wasn't expecting to feel anything different, but this morning when Daniel took my hand I could feel the rings between our fingers and it felt nice. It’s an indescribable feeling,” says Kate Marsden, 33, as she feeds her one-year-old daughter in the dusty beer garden at the Silverton Hotel. Her husband nurses a beer and smiles. Just yesterday, while a meat raffle hummed along...

They say that the counting-out pen is the best place to assess a shearer’s skill; that his signature is written in the distinctive ridges and scarlet nicks that inscribe a freshly shorn sheep’s skin. “When I shear, I leave tracks all over the sheep, to have a route to follow the next shearing,” wool producer Spike Wall laughs.  But not...

Estimated to cost between $550 million and $700 million, the project involves standardising the Geelong-Mildura line and building a new link between Mildura and the transcontinental line at Menindee, NSW, a passage known as the Barkindji Corridor after the local Indigenous people. At present, freight trains from Perth and Darwin are dismantled in Adelaide...

When the Withams finally found and bought Mount Bundy, there’d been no cattle on the place for 21 years.  The 101-year-old station, strewn with World War II relics and the birthplace of much of australia’s buffalo-hunting folklore, had thrived for decades as a popular bush bed-and-breakfast and camping destination, but the cattle side of things had...

Arrival at Freycinet is orchestrated to impress. It begins at Hobart airport, where a lounge is set up exclusively for Saffire guests. The two-and-a-half-hour drive along Tasmania’s east coast increases the anticipation. It is, however, the last few minutes of your arrival that will stay in your memory: a walk up a stylish ramp, automatic doors swing open and then the revelation...

A deserted, boarded-up hotel stands alone on a vast gibber plain in Queensland’s far south-west. It’s the only remaining structure in the tiny hamlet of Betoota, which lies between Windorah and Birdsville. Empty for most of the year, on the last Saturday of August it’s humming with people eager to experience a traditional outback race meet. “The races bring Betoota...