Australia In Style takes you on a luxurious journey to the furthest corners of Australia – without leaving behind the finer things in life. Inside its pages you will find an inspirational selection of five-star experiences set in quintessentially Australian locations.
Produced by R.M.Williams Publishing in partnership with Australian bespoke travel experts...

A hush descends around the campfire, so you can hear the individual fizz of intermittent raindrops as they plunge into the hot coals. Horse riders, clad in oilskins to keep out the rain and cold, lean forward into the orange light around the blackened bubbling billies to hear the familiar words

There was movement at the station,
for the word had passed around

The evening sun settles slowly on the Wollogorang Creek outside Goulburn in southern New South Wales, reflecting on a glistening pond and lighting up the greenery that is making a valiant stand against the persisting drought. Cattle graze contentedly in this solitude, some seeking the shade of the manna gums on the eastern side, which is a 750-metre-high ridge of the Great Dividing Range.

Looking into the evening sky, above some of the most arid mountains in the northern Flinders Ranges, ‘Stony’ Steiner, the operator of Warraweena Conservation Park, points his stubby finger into the air and traces the flight path of a commercial jet. The warble of the plane thousands of metres overhead bounces against the ranges and seems to hang over the dry, flat plains forever: a...

Helicopter pilots in northern Australia lead nomadic lives, flying between stock camps most of the year in small machines that are pushed to the limit. In the Victoria River District (VRD) of the Northern Territory, their work begins at the start of the dry season and ends when monsoonal rains arrive about nine months later.
They muster cattle off stations millions of square kilometres in...

Melaleuca Station was big on natural beauty but going nowhere as a pastoral enterprise when it came up for sale in 1992. Apart from an unfinished homestead and a smattering of broken-down infrastructure, 95 per cent of the property was a tangled mess of impenetrable mimosa weed, making it useless for cattle grazing.
But then came a rescue package combining the financial clout of its new...

The fabulous fishing along the eastern side of the Gulf of Carpentaria has been well documented for years, thanks to easy access at places such as Weipa. However, the western side, off the Northern Territory’s Arnhem Land, is still largely unexplored thanks to its remoteness. There are few roads and miles of country to explore from mangrove-lined creeks to coral reefs. Territory fisherman...