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With fierce fires burning across central Australia, cattle producers Christopher and Margo Nott are nervously awaiting the official start of the northern wet season. It’s months overdue. Good rains last year that ended almost a decade of drought have proven a double-edged sword. Conditions on Alcoota Station, north-east of Alice Springs,  NT, are again tinder-dry and...

Adelaide River Inn can hold its own among the best of them. How many pubs can boast of having a stuffed former movie star propped permanently at the front bar, and to being the site of flatulence-inspired murder? But while the hairy bovine bulk of ‘Charlie’ the buffalo is an undeniable reality at the bar, publican Jason Smith says parts of the story of the fart-related killing are...

A thick fog silently enfolds the Hervey Bay Whale Watch Quick Cat II bringing visibility to almost zero. As the motors churn into action, skipper Brian Perry assures all on board that this is a good sign. His deep voice, resonating rough and raspy over the loud speakers, announces: “She’s predicted to be fine and sunny up in Platypus Bay folks – perfect conditions for whale...

Situated deep in the Southern Ocean, 1500 kilometres south of Tasmania, Macquarie Island is not a typical Australian outpost. Snowy crags replace sun-baked plains, elephant seals and penguins reign supreme, and the mercury rarely rises above 10 degrees Celsius. But, just like in the outback, the 12,860-hectare sub-Antarctic island is currently home to a number of resilient backcountry...

There's a certain romance to Australia's ephemeral rivers. Their very names – the Diamantina, the Barcoo, and the Cooper – are intertwined with pioneering folklore. They call to mind images of remoteness, adversity, mateship, triumph and disaster; of epic struggles of endurance through drought and flood; of humanity dwarfed in the enormity of a vast desert where horizons...

At the peak of its powers the sun never set on the British Empire, but today it is a more accurate, yet perhaps less celebrated fact to note that the sun never sets on US scientific installations, scattered as they are to far-flung corners of the globe, including outback Australia. Jointly managed by the Federal Government and the US Air Force, the Learmonth Solar Observatory, 37...